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  I created these word clouds on Wordart.com to display key words identified in my preliminary reading for the IDEL assignment; they are intended to represent two broad perspectives on the question I have chosen to tackle: Who benefits from digital education? The first perspective emphasises the discontinuity between digitally-mediated education and previously existing forms […]

The aim of this post is to summarise my understanding of the feedback I received over the weekend on the progress of my blog, and to consider how I can address the points raised in the feedback in order to further exploit the possibilities offered by the blog and corresponding dialogue with my tutor. Overall, […]

This week I have experienced Minecraft for the first time, which has been quite a lot of fun at the same time as prompting reflections about digital game-based learning that I would like to give some attention to in this post. Until last week I had barely heard of Minecraft and possessed only a vague […]

In this post I’d like to talk about my experience over the past couple of weeks of interacting with my course colleagues and tutors via numerous channels of communication. The IDEL course so far is designed in such a way that participants gradually build up a ‘portfolio’ of experiences of synchronous and asynchronous interaction using […]

This paper questions the suitability and accuracy of the term TEL, challenges its apparently uncritical adoption in some educational technology research, and argues for a more careful and critical approach to the use of terminology by researchers and educational institutions. By breaking down the term TEL into its constituent parts, the author explores the underlying […]

Last week was big: I was reminded of the importance of situating contemporary developments within their historical context, as well as the potency and centrality of feminist perspectives in the discussion of contemporary issues. When viewed through a historical lens, what may at first appear to be new and unprecedented debates and dilemmas arising in […]

Coming to the end of Week 2 and some fascinating exploration of the teacher-tech relationship and the numerous critical approaches to it, I feel like I’ve gained a significant insight into some of the underlying reasons for the unease I’ve experienced over the past few years while teaching English to adults in a private academy. […]

Reading Bayne’s article on the ‘teacherbot’ project (2015) brought to mind some conversations I had with my family during the Christmas holidays around the topic of Amazon Alexa. It had been a recent addition to one household and the way in which its owners interacted with it attracted the attention of their guests and provoked […]

I’ve just finished the core reading for this week and it’s been consciously slow-paced – a process of not simply reading text on a screen and trying to assimilate its meaning, but equally of experimentation and what I will refer to as reacculturation. Experimentation with particular methods of tackling an academic text, including highlighting, note-taking, […]

Week 2 is already upon us and looking back over the first week, I can affirm that in many ways it has been productive, with most of my activity centring around the discussion forums where I’ve been introduced to some interesting new concepts and read numerous comments which have struck a chord with me professionally […]

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