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"This webinar presents a view of digital literacy through a discussion of E-learning and Digital Cultures (known as EDCMOOC), a Massive Open Online Course offered in January 2013 by the University of Edinburgh in partnership with Coursera. The profusion of multimodal artefacts produced in response to the EDCMOOC will provide a number of examples with which to explore sociomaterialism in relation to literacy practices online. It will be suggested that this work constitutes a set of sociomaterial entanglements, in which human beings and technologies each play a part. By looking at these examples, we will suggest that sociomaterial multimodality offers a different way of thinking about digital literacy: not as a set of representational practices, but rather as complex enactments of knowledge, specific to particular contexts and moments." What does this even mean? This is a sample of the language of #edcmooc and it's a barrier to entry.

An impassioned essay calling for an end the restrictive fear and rigidity of top down education.Instead let us learn from the wisdom of indigenous cultures and be free to learn, imagine, wander, and be more human - less mass produced. "If the internet is the collective intelligence of human beings connecting across the dimension of digital space, then indigenous wisdom is the collective intelligence of human beings connecting across the dimension of time."

Can these devices that alienate those around us, actually make us more human? Case Amber argues that our phones are wormholes in our pocket, connecting us in a practical and efficient way with loved ones?

Includes good TED Talk video (7 mins) outlining cyborg anthropology - how humans are interacting with new digital tools to extend/connect minds and selves.

Interesting BBC radio series from Aleks Krotoski covering topics such as "What is the biggest threat to privacy: governments, corporate entities or our friends?", "Is control over one's digital life an illusion? And what happens if control is lost?", " if we have all become cyborgs without even knowing it."