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. [...]
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Hand, Martin: ‘Hardware to everywhere: Narratives of promise and threat‘ I think that the overriding issues are inherent in the questions: To what extent is the cyberworld our master or servant? He makes us aware of where the power lies, namely [...] …highly kaleidoscopic week… now you see it… now you don’t… have l I really deleted that column… how did I manage that… I wonder where’s the best place to look for… Ah reassurance; I turned to the blog postings and sensed the anomie that others too are feeling. It helps me to sense this in [...] Bell’s interweaving of the material, symbolic and experiential reflects for me the the soft face of analysis, interestingly contrasted with Hand’s hard analysis. The former a joy to read; the latter a chore. History then runs as a unifying thread through Bell’s warm approach. I find it really worthwhile to sense the mind at work [...] Hand’s balance sheet doesn’t look too promising: promise social inclusion empowerment interactive citizenship participatory democracy communitarian civic culture affluence for all customized consumer choice global mobility global/glocal marketization information commonwealth net interactivity technical devices as change agents interacting information poverty panoptica prison
No wonder then that [...] It suddenly occurred to me that maybe Sian or Jen or both are playing the imp in the ether to provoke our curiosity. imps at work By this I mean, we are handling a text of extreme density of terminology (Hand), a text that by ‘my’ definition has minimal redundancy, through the medium of the [...] Years ago I gave up going to parties where, to quote Eliot as Prufrock, I had to read this twice. At first reading it was too dense for me; involved too much context (thematic) specific vocabulary. On the second reading I could relax and begin to distill meaning from the text. In essence I feel that Hand wants us to consider the unfamiliar, uncomfortable side of a potentially brave [...] |
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