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In using the term ‘online’ learning I follow Paulson (2002): • “the separation of teachers and learners which distinguishes it from face-to-face education Introduction I decided not to go back over my summaries but to attempt a search for the deep structure behind them. In that endeavour I came up with six questions which require answers for me to be satisfied with what these weeks brought me; a kind of personal accounting procedure. End of [...] I used Sian Bayne’s latest article as a basis to personally reflect on the uncanny nature of learning space in an academic environment. I found myself in agreement about where ‘machining and dreaming’ belong in a house of learning. I do see uncanny pedagogies as being a futuristic approach to academic, school and personalized learning. [...] An enforced absence; having a medical problem myself, trying to teach effectively, looking after a household, two dogs, five cats and two rabbits plus a wife recovering from a major operation showed me just how much clay my feet were made of. (dis)location From Usher and Edward’s paper I have tried to garner the key pointers offered which will help me to interpret the changes implied for teaching, learning and research. the reader becomes the potential author This marks my return to my blog after an enforced absence; having a medical problem myself, trying to teach effectively, looking after a household, two dogs, five cats and two rabbits plus a wife recovering from a major operation showed me just how much clay my feet were made of. I celebrated my return by starting [...] The above titled article by Ananda Mitra and Rae Lynn Schwartz from Wake Forest University caught my attention.It argues persuasively, in my opinion, that we claim to be inhabiting presently two worlds which should be seen in terms of space as one world. We inhabit geographical and cyber spaces. However posthumans (my term here) in [...] This week was a very hectic week after my wife’s operation but somehow I got through lots of the readings. After reflecting on Haraway I posted ‘Cyborg Alice’ which portrayed how I think she portrays her cyborg. I found Shields’ comment to be realistic: I have just read Sarah Payne’s ‘Horizon, Haraway and artifacts of knowledge’ in which she writes about the need for Haraway to be deciphered by other academics for her to be accessed by a wider audience. Sarah makes the interesting point that although Haraway is a cultural artefact in fact the ‘producers of artifacts of [...] After the doom and gloom and banishment of my mortal body along with all hope for the future of mankind and our replacement by cyborgs it was refreshing to read Muri and discover that Ascott, Weibel or even the philosophically cautious Heim see some reasons for hope. Just as well because I was beginning [...] |
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