Masters Digital Education
Reading Time: < 1 minute This example illustrates Herr taking the development of his prosthetic limbs through the four stages human-machine relationships (Grey et al, 1995 in Miller, 2011): restorative, normalising, enhancing and reconfiguring. The issue of when bionics moves beyond normalisation has been raised …
Reading Time: < 1 minute Patchwork Girl (1995) is a piece of electronic literature rendered in hypertext by Shelly Jackson. Composed by piecing together original text and images, along with quotes, borrowed fictional characters, fictional lives of real people, and stories, it gives life to …
Reading Time: 2 minutes I’m listening to the Coronavirus Spike Protein… Stern’s main point is to make us think more fully and more critically about “…what counts in the domain of cyberculture studies…” which he does “…by exploring some aspects of contemporary media culture …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Though there are so many things one could mention, I am just going to highlight one aspect that stuck a chord with me. When reading ‘Alan’s’ remarks (Sheail, 2018) about how he envisaged flexible online courses might look, I was …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Pillay’s questioning of the ‘…the discipline of Psychology in general, or critical psychology in particular…’ [p.156] brought to mind this quote: “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.” [Martin …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Gough (2013) covers some useful points on complexity, what it is, how we (in education) feel about it, how we deal with it. The paper does however lean towards strawman arguments at times. It concludes suggesting a way between the …
Reading Time: 1 minute The views on curriculum theory have changed, as the view on the purpose of education has changed. This very readable paper, takes us through definitions of curriculum through the ages, their influences and the possible impacts of their adoption on …
Reading Time: < 1 minute I was intrigued by this blog post (opens in a new window) based on the authors reading of works by Norman and Kahneman & Patrick (see below). The authors suggests that there may be an issue as ‘…what is written …
Reading Time: < 1 minute There is a belief (I’m calling it that because I don’t think it is backed up by anything) that the test of your ability at maths, is your ability to do mental maths. This still exists and where held, affects …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Using Selwyn (2017), I considered the courses I had taken over the years. I struggled to find whole courses as examples, which were much more likely to be made of a combination of approaches, depending on the activity. Nevertheless, here’s …
