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David Andrew

Kinda Learning Stuff: Struck by a thought or so... - 0 views

  • Listening to a Webcast from the Open University on "The Net Generation" I'm struck again by how much time we spend trying to categorise and label technologies and usage of technology which are used innately by those who are the most active participants. It reminds me of David Attenborough, high on the African plain doing a softly worded piece to camera about the behaviour of the animals he's observing... all the while the animals in question are simply getting on with their own thing and merrily ignoring his insightful, considered words.
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    Listening to a Webcast from the Open University on "The Net Generation" I'm struck again by how much time we spend trying to categorise and label technologies and usage of technology which are used innately by those who are the most active participants. It reminds me of David Attenborough, high on the African plain doing a softly worded piece to camera about the behaviour of the animals he's observing... all the while the animals in question are simply getting on with their own thing and merrily ignoring his insightful, considered words.
David Andrew

Finshed reading - Lakoff and Johnson - The Embodied Mind - 0 views

  • I am very disappointed with Philosophy in the Flesh - I think trying to explain away most philosophical debates by re-interpreted them in relation to basic metaphors is simplistic.I was also disappointed with their limited view of the history of psychology - assuming that cognitive psychology started in the 1950's leaves out some important influences - their attempt to produce an embodied theory of the mind would benefit from comparisons with the psychology of Rubenstein and later activity theory.
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anonymous

Digital student | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

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    This seems particularly pertinent given all the recent activity in College around the 'Student Experience'. The lastest version of JISC Inform talks about this and this appears to be the launch of their "Student Experiences of Technology" campaign which is bound to yield something useful.
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    Guardian education supplement examining technology in higher education, particularly so called Web2.0 technologies and examining the student perspective.
a lang

Close the Book. Recall. Write It Down. - Chronicle.com - 0 views

shared by a lang on 28 Apr 09 - Cached
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    Very good advice - I did a photoreading course some time ago and the activation stage was crucial - ie when you put the book away and revise what you have learnt from it. The other thing that was not mentioned here which I think is interesting is to do a mindmap or list of what you already know before you read something - I don't know how students here would find it - at Londonmet they found it very difficult - and we really surprised at how much they did know - and how it made reading easier.
David Andrew

Signs of epistemic disruption: Transformations in the knowleedge system of the academi... - 0 views

shared by David Andrew on 08 May 09 - Cached
  • This article is an overview of the current state of scholarly journals, not (just) as an activity to be described in terms of its changing processes, but more fundamentally as a pivot point in a broader knowledge system. After locating journals in what we term the process of knowledge design, the article goes on to discuss some of the deeply disruptive aspects of the contemporary moment
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