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Rick Bartlett

We need to talk about TED | Benjamin Bratton | Comment is free | theguardian.com - 2 views

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#edcmooc TED critique

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  • This is taking something with value and substance and coring it out so that it can be swallowed without chewing. This is not the solution to our most frightening problems – rather this is one of our most frightening problems.
  • I'm sorry but this fails to meet the challenges that we are supposedly here to confront. These are complicated and difficult and are not given to tidy just-so solutions. They don't care about anyone's experience of optimism.
  • but TED's version has too much faith in technology, and not nearly enough commitment to technology. It is placebo technoradicalism, toying with risk so as to reaffirm the comfortable.
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  • The potential for these technologies are both wonderful and horrifying at the same time, and to make them serve good futures, design as "innovation" just isn't a strong enough idea by itself. We need to talk more about design as "immunisation," actively preventing certain potential "innovations" that we do not want from happening.
  • f we really want transformation, we have to slog through the hard stuff (history, economics, philosophy, art, ambiguities, contradictions). Bracketing it off to the side to focus just on technology, or just on innovation, actually prevents transformation.
  • At a societal level, the bottom line is if we invest in things that make us feel good but which don't work, and don't invest in things that don't make us feel good but which may solve problems, then our fate is that it will just get harder to feel good about not solving problems.
Chris Swift

Seven Skills Students Need for Their Future - 1 views

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#edcmooc

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  • Chris Swift on 20 Jan 13
     
    1. Critical thinking and problem-solving 2. Collaboration across networks and leading by influence 3. Agility and adaptability 4. Initiative and entrepreneurialism 5. Effective oral and written communication 6. Accessing and analyzing information 7. Curiosity and imagination Someone makes a point in the comments. "Dr. Wagner states that "we have no idea how to teach or assess these skills." How about the idea of 'letting learners watch someone already possessing these skills, exercise these skills'....what happens if teachers can act like students - 'showing them how to gain the knowledge, using resources made available, from someone who possesses the knowledge already', rather than attempting to teach such knowledge.
Chris Swift

Online courses need human element to educate - 9 views

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#edcmooc

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  • Chris Swift on 18 Jan 13
     
    "..the best of MOOCs should be able to bring together ideal, heterogeneous groupings of students based on their profiles and past performance, and also create ample opportunities for them to engage with one another in the spirit of learning. Perhaps this spirit of mutual aid is what built the Internet in the first place. Now that this massive collaborative learning project has succeeded, it would be a shame if we used it to take the humanity out of learning altogether."
Chris Swift

Technology + Demand = Change - 5 views

ryan2point0.wordpress.com/...the-equation-for-change

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  • Chris Swift on 03 Feb 13
     
    So the practical message I draw from the theory of technological determinism is that to change your society - be it a classroom, an organisation, or even a country - there's no point implementing a technology just for the sake of it. You first need to know your audience and understand the demands they have that drive their behaviour. Only then will you know which technology to deploy, if any at all.
César E. Concepción-Acevedo

Technological Determinism: Technological Autonomy - 0 views

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  • 'autonomy' is a key concept in Western liberalism
    • César E. Concepción-Acevedo
      César E. Concepción-Acevedo on 03 Feb 13
       
      I dont think that the key concept unique to humans is autonomy, after all machines can execute autonomous comands and processes. However, i agree with Morin and Numann when they state that the uniqueness and essential diference of machines is humans is that the later can regenerate.
  • Referring to standardized human behaviour and to what he calls the 'invisible technology' of language as well as to machines, Postman argues that 'Technique, like any other technology, tends to function independently of the system it serves. It becomes autonomous, in the manner of a robot that no longer obeys its master' (Postman 1993, p. 142).
  • The Frankenstein Syndrome: One creates a machine for a particular and limited purpose. But once the machine is built, we discover, always to our surprise - that it has ideas of its own; that it is quite capable not only of changing our habits but... of changing our habits of mind' (Postman 1983, p. 23).
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  • they are 'always unpredictable'
  • The notion that technological developments arise to 'fill needs' is reflected in the myth that 'necessity is the mother of invention'. It presents technology as a benevolent servant of the human species. But as Carroll Purcell puts it, 'many modern "needs" are themselves inventions, the product of an economy that stimulates consumption so that it can make and market things for a profit' (Purcell 1994, p. 40).
Chris Swift

Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world - 3 views

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  • Chris Swift on 03 Feb 13
     
    Jane argues, "If we want to solve global problems we need to aspire to play more games online. Games are essential to the survival of the human species"
Kelcy A

Mourning and Public-ness by danah boyd - 0 views

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danahboyd zephoria grief public-ness internet sharing privacy AaronSwartz death appropriateness

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  • Kelcy A on 03 Feb 13
     
    Speaks to an important element of online culture - how much do you share and where is it safe to share when you need to interact with the network of digital friends that you have formed online
Chris Jobling

EDCMOOC | University of Edinburgh - 0 views

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EDCMOOC #edcmooc coursera redundant-coursera

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  • Chris Jobling on 07 Nov 13
     
    The readings and watchings for the E-Learning and Digital Cultures MOOC. Not sure why we need coursera!
Felicia Sullivan

UC Davis's groundbreaking digital badge system for new sustainable agriculture program ... - 0 views

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  • Felicia Sullivan on 03 Jan 14
     
    "Normoyle and her colleagues settled on badges, with an undergirding of competencies that describe the learning outcomes and skills students need to successfully complete the major. (Click here for a presentation from Normoyle about the competencies and badges.)"
Chris Swift

Technology is the Answer: What was the Question? -: UNESCO Education - 0 views

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  • audiocassettes
    • Christine Padberg
      Christine Padberg on 29 Jan 13
       
      Sort of an outdated reference, isn't it?
    • Laurie Niestrath
      Laurie Niestrath on 01 Feb 13
       
      I'd agree, but in some parts of the world, it is still a viable form of technology, compact and easy
  • four principles that you should apply to thought or action that involves information and communications technology
  • bias,
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  • vendor bias has now got a firm grip on much of the public discourse about information and communications technology
  • be sceptical about assertions of the value of technology coming either from those who want to sell it to you or from their surrogates in political life
  • the suppression of research reports or evaluative studies that undermine the thesis that technology improves everything.
    • Laurie Niestrath
      Laurie Niestrath on 01 Feb 13
       
      Technology can make one feel very dissatisfied with life. When you know something better is out there, do you pine away for it feeling like it will make your life oh, so much easier?
  • bullshit
  • When we see a concept everywhere it is easy to suspend our critical faculties and assume it must be right
  • breadth
  • think broadly about technology in teaching and learning.
  • Technology always involves people and their social systems
  • Remember that there are many technologies: books, blackboard, film, radio, television, programmed learning and so on. The Internet has not made them obsolete
  • starts with teaching and attempts to use technology to expand the range and impact of the teacher
  • the remote classroom approach
  • the rest of the world had a different tradition
  • started on the other side of the coin, with learning, and used technology to create a good learning environment for the student wherever and whenever the student wanted to study.
  • We must strive for balance on a number of dimensions.
  • When we use technology are we using it to enhance learning or to enhance teaching?
  • Dimension number two means seeking balance in answer to the question: teaching and learning for what?
  • Open University students have an extensive range of online facilities available. Which ones do they use?
  • they like using the web for informational and administrative transactions.
  • communication between students
  • Online technologies can, of course, be useful for learning
  • two key virtues.
  • support active learning experiences
  • devising good active learning experiences is expensive because it requires lots of work by the teachers
  • notably by destroying old jobs and creating new ones.
    • Laurie Niestrath
      Laurie Niestrath on 01 Feb 13
       
      Please tell me something new. This is an idea that has perpetuated itself for centuries!The cotton gin destroyed the need to hand pick and clean cotton, It created the opportunity for the enslaved to have yet, another job.
    • Maria Washington
      Maria Washington on 05 Feb 13
       
      I hope you are being "cheeky" when you so easily type the words: "enslaved," "job," and "opportunity" in the same sentence. This clip and the full documentary may shed some light on the topic: http://video.pbs.org/video/2192491729
  • The best way to reach learners is to use technology that the learner already has.
    • Laurie Niestrath
      Laurie Niestrath on 01 Feb 13
       
      Okay, I'd agree with this one. Start where you are and move on. Too many institutions moan over the lack of "technology." If you have a computer, you have so many social media resources at your disposal IF you know how to access, use and apply them!
  • technology more for activities associated with their studies
  • rather than for the mainline work of studying course content. T
  • Why should we want to use technology? How should we use technology for learning and teaching? What are the basic principles? Who can benefit most from educational technology? Where should we apply it? Which technologies are best? More generally, how do you make judgements about the many claims that are made for technology?
  • illiteracy
  • In both cases technology is changing society, notably by destroying old jobs and creating new ones.
  • vendor bias
    • César E. Concepción-Acevedo
      César E. Concepción-Acevedo on 07 Feb 13
       
      The most effective softwares are the once licensed under Creative Commons and are open source. This gives great power and independence to institutions and individuals. It truly IS the way to avoid the pervasive pitfalls that software tycoons throw education in (costly updates, upgrade caps etc. ).
  • basic triangle
    • César E. Concepción-Acevedo
      César E. Concepción-Acevedo on 07 Feb 13
       
      While reading the speech on Globalisation and Tech from #UNESCO head of #education. Produced this #artifact #edcmooc http://pk.gd/A6BI
  • Chris Swift on 16 Feb 13
     
    Globalisation, education & technology - what is fair, equal, just, right and wrong in the world?
Ary Aranguiz

Half an Hour: What Makes a MOOC Massive? - 0 views

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  • my understanding is that for the course to be a *course* it has to be more than just a broadcast.
  • the capacity of the technology supporting the course to enable and engage conversations and activities across multiple platforms
  • The big danger, to my mind, in a large online course is that through strong group-formation activities, it can become a small online course. This happens when a central clique or insider group is formed, or where you have inner circles and outer circles. The inner circle, for example, might expect and demand preferential access to and individual attention from the course facilitators.
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  • the primary value becomes cohesion and agreement, rather than diversity and distinct perspectives.
  • When the course functions as a small group, there is an expectation that everyone will agree on the course content, objectives, and domain of discussion. But, in fact, to be a massive course, it must needs respect a wide variety of individual objectives, perspectives on course materials, and opinions about relevant topics of discussion (not to mention technological platform and language of 'instruction').
Rick Bartlett

Social Learning - Symbaloo - 2 views

edu.symbaloo.com/...sociallearning2

symbaloo learning social #edcmooc

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  • Helen Crump on 23 Nov 13
     
    This has just convinced me of the need I have to use Symbaloo as my PLE dashboard and of the benefit I would gain from using it. Currently I try to manage these sites in my Firefox browser - it's becoming a nightmare. I'd seen Symbaloo before but hadn't persevered with it. Didn't think it was for me, but now I'm sold. Thanks for the share.
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