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Week Nine Summary

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.

Key pointers from ‘Lost and found’

(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
experts are dislocated in the security of their roles
the traditional and emerging  blur expertise boundaries
there is a ‘diaspora  space of hybridity’
the self-regulating [...]

‘uncanny digital pedagogies’

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 [...]

From Cyber Space to Cybernetic Space: Rethinking the Relationship between Real and Virtual Spaces

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 [...]