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Ping Lee-Wragge

BBC News - What If? Visions of the future - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/world-21163117

Future visions Art #edcmooc MOOC

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  • What does the future look like to you?
  • share their vision with us
  • six artists from around the world
  • Ping Lee-Wragge on 20 Feb 13
     
    Thanks to Rick B's recent Diigo share re: How will our future cities look? I found this project; syncs with what the EDCMOOC is enabling and encouraging participants to partake in.
Chris Swift

Our Vision | Open Knowledge Foundation - 0 views

okfn.org/vision

edcmooc

shared by Chris Swift on 21 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • Chris Swift on 21 Dec 12
     
    A group interested on the liberation of information (it goes from free e-learning to governmental transparency)
Christine Padberg

Wiki - Week 1 Resources | E-learning and Digital Cultures - 0 views

class.coursera.org/...view

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  • Uses determination
    • Christine Padberg
      Christine Padberg on 29 Jan 13
       
      Should this be "user" determination?
  • Technological determination:
  • technology ‘produces new realities’, new ways of communicating, learning and living, and its effects can be unpredictable
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  • Social determination
  • technology is determined by the political and economic structures of society. Questions about ownership and control are key in this orientation
  • technology is shaped and takes meaning from how individuals and groups choose to use it
  • Which of these perspectives do you lean towards in your understanding of the relationship between technology and pedagogy? Can you point to instances in society or in your own context where this stance is necessary or useful?
  • Which of these perspectives do you lean towards in your understanding of the relationship between technology and pedagogy? Can you point to instances in society or in your own context where this stance is necessary or useful?
  • technology could solve the three most pressing problems of education: access, quality and cost
  • in all parts of the world evolving technology is the main force that is changing society
  • a model technological determinist position,
  • what observations can you make about his utopian arguments about education? What currency do they continue to have in this field?
  • the orientation here is clearly dystopic
  • ‘administrators and commercial partners’ as being in favour of ‘teacherless’ digital education,
  • ‘teachers and students’ as being against it
  • these divisions have never been clear, and they certainly aren’t now.
  • Why does Noble say that technology is a ‘vehicle’ and a ‘disguise’ for the commercialization of higher education? How can we relate this early concern with commercialism to current debates about MOOCs, for example? And how are concerns about ‘automation’ and ‘redundant faculty’ still being played out today?
  • the consequences of digital education
  • What kind of determinist position do they take? To what extent are they utopic or dystopic visions of the future? Why have the ideas they represent been so readily taken up and distributed within all educational sectors?
  • metaphor of the native and the immigrant
  • Prensky warns ‘immigrant’ teachers that they face irrelevance unless they figure out how to adapt their methods and approaches to new generations of learners.
  • how does the language he uses work to persuade the reader? Who are ‘we’ and who are ‘they’? What associations do you have with the idea of the ‘native’ and the ‘immigrant’, and how helpful are these in understanding teacher-student relationships?
  • What is being left out of the story of the internet here, and from what position is this story being constructed?
  • technological determinism,
  • Dahlberg, L (2004). Internet Research Tracings: Towards Non-Reductionist Methodology. Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, 9/3
Vanessa Vaile

How to Fuel Students' Learning Through Their Interests | MindShift - 0 views

blogs.kqed.org/...arning-through-their-interests

pbl technology inquiry transliteracy interests blogging edcmooc

shared by Vanessa Vaile on 26 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • “open source learning” — a variation on inquiry learning or passion-based learning –  is about helping students choose their own learning path
  • classroom centers around the publication and maintenance of students’ personal blogs. The blogs themselves are a requirement, but the content and medium used in many student responses—be it text, video, audio, or some combination—are often the result of students’ own creative vision
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