Authority relations behind the scenes of online education – Bjarke Anderson, 24 Apr https://t.co/pkVxbnKndX #deresearch #mscde
— Jeremy Knox (@j_k_knox) March 31, 2017
I would love to be able to attend this event, as I would have liked to attend recent lectures by Audrey Watters and on Critical Pedagogy at Edinburgh. I will look out for recordings.
The title is interesting – erosion and sedimentation recall my lifestream analogy and underpin how words and metaphors perform our world.
Transhumanism a final capitulation of personhood? Even the trnshumnst only ok coz got used to the idea https://t.co/WDElUdvfo6 #mscedc
— Cathy Hills (@fleurhills) March 31, 2017
I tweeted this article on transhumanism. What I found fascinating about it was that Randal Koene, a transhumanist, was asked by the interviewer
wouldn’t a radical fusion of ourselves with technology amount, in the end, to a final capitulation of the very idea of personhood?
Koene replied by saying
Hearing you say that makes it clear that there’s a major hurdle there for people. I’m more comfortable than you are with the idea, but that’s because I’ve been exposed to it for so long that I’ve just got used to it.
We have a choice don’t we?
@learntechstu @lemurph I second Stuart's comment, it's a great piece of work. It might be tongue-in-cheek but makes a killer point! #mscedc
— Cathy Hills (@fleurhills) March 26, 2017
I liked Helen’s clever interpretations of our tweetorial.
@helenwalker7 James said difficult to dictate count for artefact. Using my judgement 😱 #mscedc
— Cathy Hills (@fleurhills) March 26, 2017
@Digeded Keyhole analytics of #mscedc showing sentiment, gender split etc. https://t.co/qMGag1zvcS pic.twitter.com/2M2gL4Eqj5
— Nigel Painting (@nigelchpainting) March 24, 2017
Studying different analytical tools allows us a better view of ‘the processes inherent to analysis itself‘ (Knox, 2015), allowing us to see what might be considered success under their terms.
Knox, J. (2014). Abstracting Learning Analytics. Code Acts in Education ESRC seminar series blog. http://codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2014/09/26/abstracting-learning-analytics/
Great #mscedc tutorial there, thanks everyone for your contribution. And thanks to @c4miller for bringing his green screen to class. pic.twitter.com/adHCTgOjFp
— James Lamb (@james858499) March 24, 2017
After some analysis, I consider this great picture to be one suitable representation of an interesting and useful tutorial!
Haven't done my blog post yet, but quick thinglink on #mscedc tweetorial https://t.co/3x5nZzIAK9
— Cathy Hills (@fleurhills) March 23, 2017
'class and race' visualised as geog of academic achievement #mscedc https://t.co/BjzxP9ndYK
— Cathy Hills (@fleurhills) March 23, 2017
This map makes visible a geography of academic achievement with inherent class and race implications and shows educational achievement as both marking and constructing divisions in society.
Mapping the geography of academic attainment
Big data can be harnessed for good or wielded as unimpeachable fact to direct our action in pursuit of anothers’ gain. As Enyon states,
as a community we need to shape the agenda rather than simply respond to the one offered by others
(Enyon, 2013, p.238)
Eynon, R. (2013). The rise of Big Data: what does it mean for education, technology, and media research? Learning, Media and Technology. pp.237-240.
culture, comms and algos 'we r past the days whre thr can be one single picture that encaps national taste' https://t.co/n8eZFua6NN #mscedc
— Cathy Hills (@fleurhills) March 23, 2017
Learning analytics can add to our understanding of the conditions for learning when used in conjunction with human judgement and triangulated with information from other sources. More importantly, it is a measure of wider political and societal concerns such as the marketization of education led by Silicon Valley giant corporations.
Image from https://hellohart.com/2015/05/25/the-mathematics-of-crochet/
by crocheting computer-generated instructions of the Lorenz manifold: all crochet stitches together define the surface of initial conditions that under influence of the vector field generated by the Lorenz equations end up at the origin; all other initial conditions go to the butterfly attractor that has chaotic dynamics. The overall shape of the surface is created by little local changes: adding or removing points at each step
Art or craft can make complex mathematics ‘visible’ for the layperson revealing its beauty and intricacies and opening up ways of understanding what composes our black boxed technologies.