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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

The MOOC - Nothing Can Stop It! - 2 views

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edcmooc

shared by Chris Swift on 20 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • Chris Swift on 20 Dec 12
     
    "The best thing to come out of the MOOC phenomenon is that people are talking about teaching, instructional strategies, and assessment."
Céline Keller

Technology is the Answer: What was the Question? Daniel, J. (2002). - 0 views

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#edcmooc blogpost TED videos autodidacticism articles onelaptopperchild SugataMitra

shared by Céline Keller on 28 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • Céline Keller on 28 Jan 13
     
    I started the theory related reading today and really enjoyed Professor Daniel's 'Technology is the Answer: What was the Question?' I made a blog post about it which I invite you to visit:  http://krustelkrammoocs.blogspot.de/2013/01/technology-is-answer-what-was-question.html You will find Sugata Mitra's TED Talk: 'The child-driven education' about 'The Hole in the Wall' project mentioned by Professor Daniel and a great article about a more recent project by One Laptop per Child ('Given Tablets but No Teachers, Ethiopian Children Teach Themselves').  #edcmooc   #TED   #videos   #autodidactism #blogpost  #SugataMitra #onelaptopperchild
Helen Crump

We Aren't All Cyborgs... Yet - 0 views

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cyborg #EDCMOOC digital human cyborg anthropology

shared by Helen Crump on 29 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • Helen Crump on 29 Dec 12
     
    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?
  • Helen Crump on 29 Dec 12
     
    Includes good TED Talk video (7 mins) outlining cyborg anthropology - how humans are interacting with new digital tools to extend/connect minds and selves.
Céline Keller

Technological determinism / Neil Postman | KrustelKram's Adventures in Online Learning - 0 views

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Technological determinism videos talks Neil Postman articles

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  • Céline Keller on 01 Feb 13
     
    "Every teacher should begin every course making a little speech to the students, that would go along these lines: Hey look I am a fallible human being so during the duration of this course I am bound to make lots of mistakes. I will say things that are untrue. I will give opinions that are unfounded.Your job as a student is to pay a lot of attention and try to identify when I made a mistake. And then try to show me and your classmates where I made that mistake." Neil Postman "Textbooks present facts and information...and teach kids that subjects are boring, when in fact they are not." Neil Postman Link collection and videos on Neil Postman
Céline Keller

The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined - Salman Khan - 0 views

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edcmooc SalmanKhan talks videos articles

shared by Céline Keller on 29 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • Céline Keller on 29 Jan 13
     
    "While I'm around, Khan Academy will be free," Khan says. (source: Inside Higher Ed) "The new world is not about selling or having a gate to knowledge," he said. "It's about having a relationship with the user." (source: Daily News)
Vanessa Vaile

Steve Fuller - Who Will Recognise Humanity 2.0 - And Will It Recognise Us? - 0 views

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education edtech technological literacy edcmooc

shared by Vanessa Vaile on 12 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • : What is the story that leads up to humanity 2.0 and is it co-extensive with the history of science? ‘
  • transhumanism: a term that he’s careful to distinguish from posthumanism. Posthumanism, he explains, takes a Darwinian standpoint on life; it’s a ‘species egalitarian view’ in which there is a definite respect for life, but no respect for the qualities of human beings that distinguish us from other life-forms. ‘There is no humanity 2.0 in this picture, there’s just post-humanity,’
  • Darwin was very reluctant to support movements in the late 19th-century that we would now associate with transhumanist thinking, such as eugenics and vivisection
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  • process in human evolution, and that we could potentially take control of it, emerged in the 1930s with figures like Sir Julian Huxley.
  • one organism that can understand the whole thing - and then take control of it. That was the promise of transhumanism
  • The next phase of transhumanism is the converging technologies agenda: ‘The particular technologies we’re talking about are based on nanotechnology, biotechnology, information science and the cognitive sciences.
  • r for the purpose of enhancing human beings,
  • push-back in the idea that humans can raise themselves to this higher level and governments have always been worried about these advance forms of technology and knowledge actually getting into the hands of people who can use them for their own purpose
  • no overarching, normative sense of humanity
  • Steve Fuller is Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick. Originally trained in history and philosophy of science, he is best known for his work in the field of ‘social epistemology’, which is concerned with the normative foundations of organized inquiry.
Chris Swift

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

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#edcmooc

shared by Chris Swift on 03 Feb 13 - Cached
  • 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"
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