@ClareThomsonQUB now I'm wondering, how would I do the same thing for #mscedc. What would be the representation in a photo?
— Eli's inane rambling (@Eli_App_D) March 21, 2017
It must have worked! Clare got it!
NOT just another Education and Digital Cultures 2017 site
@ClareThomsonQUB now I'm wondering, how would I do the same thing for #mscedc. What would be the representation in a photo?
— Eli's inane rambling (@Eli_App_D) March 21, 2017
It must have worked! Clare got it!
@j_k_knox oops, looks like I accidently used the work twitter account once. #mscedc
— Eli's inane rambling (@Eli_App_D) March 20, 2017
In all the excitement of the tweetorial, I must have used the ECA_LearningTech twitter account, it has shown up on the stats. Oops. Well at least it’s kind of relevant.
A self portrait, that I'm not in but of course, #mscedc makes it. https://t.co/e3fzWia2of
— Eli's inane rambling (@Eli_App_D) March 19, 2017
I enjoyed the MOOC from block 2 so much that I carried on learning from it in the little bit of spare time I have (aside from work, masters study, family life, my blog, my youtube channel and sleep). This week I had an assignment of taking a self-portrait BUT I couldn’t be in the picture.
It was a really fun assignment which meant I had to do a lot of thought about what would represent me in a photograph. My usual gardening, cooking and cycling were evident, as was my brewing, but right up there was also my studies in MSCDE. The study, Moray House and now the University have all become so much an important part of who I am that I couldn’t possibly leave them out. A very big change from the very first blog post I wrote as part of IDEL where I spoke about how I didn’t feel like I was part of the university. now I find myself thinking about, using and talking about my studies as part of my job, I feel like I have a much better understanding of what I do as a learning technologist, and more importantly what I could do.
MSCDE has changed me, for the better.
@Tauraco @Digeded @guardian I could act surprised if it helps? #mscedc
— Eli's inane rambling (@Eli_App_D) March 19, 2017
I sometimes forget that we don’t all work in a higher education institute and sometimes the actions and behaviours I experience as normal every day seem very different to those outside the H.E. circuit.
I feel that learning analytics is one of those very things, but the shoe is on the other foot. As a learning consultant for a non education establishment, my entire job was based around being able to provide data to prove the value of the training we offered. If we couldn’t prove with analytics, that the training was making a positive impact on the business then it wasn’t deemed important enough to have. There was no place for personal development or learning that didn’t directly feed into the bottom line.
I sometimes wonder now as I progress through the different courses in the MSc, how my classmates from different backgrounds and even other H.E. institutions take onboard our learning, how it relates to their work place and if they are on the same journal as me or if they are indeed taking a very different perspective on the things we learn.
I guess it’s a fantastic way to introduce the idea of interpretation to this weeks workload. We all start with the same raw data, how we interpret it will then factor into how we will use it. Something which I am sure will come up frequently as we continue our fun with algorithms and learning analytics this week.
@james858499 example 4 @dabjacksonyang teachers already know student hasn’t submitted or if theres a pattern of behaviour 1 of 2#mscedc
— Eli's inane rambling (@Eli_App_D) March 17, 2017
@james858499 @dabjacksonyang 2 of 2
but when talking about huge amounts of data, more than can humanly be managed we turn to techn#mscedc— Eli's inane rambling (@Eli_App_D) March 17, 2017
@james858499 aren’t LAs just ta way to use BIG data instead of the smaller stuff that educators deal with already?#mscedc
— Eli's inane rambling (@Eli_App_D) March 17, 2017
@ClareThomsonQUB @c4miller @dabjacksonyang @nigelchpainting @Cheneehey @rennhann #rollerskates #rollerderby #quads #rollerblades#mscedc
— Eli's inane rambling (@Eli_App_D) March 17, 2017
@fleurhills yeah, lecture capture is a touchy issue here over fears of staff monitoring#mscedc
— Eli's inane rambling (@Eli_App_D) March 17, 2017
@c4miller so which bit triggered Swedish?#mscedc
— Eli's inane rambling (@Eli_App_D) March 17, 2017
@c4miller oh lets try,
Madhain mhath Colin, ciamar a tha sibh an duigh?#mscedc
— Eli's inane rambling (@Eli_App_D) March 17, 2017
@nigelchpainting @joglover Yeah @salomemaloney, what he said!#mscedc
— Eli's inane rambling (@Eli_App_D) March 17, 2017
@c4miller @dabjacksonyang @nigelchpainting @Cheneehey @rennhann He’s here all week folks, try the fish. #mscedc
— Eli's inane rambling (@Eli_App_D) March 17, 2017
roller skates, quads, roller blades, roller hockey, roller derby, #mscedc
— Eli's inane rambling (@Eli_App_D) March 17, 2017
@BenPatrickWill @helenwalker7 do edu staff feel they have to hide their concerns for fear of being seen as a negative ninny? #mscedc
— Eli's inane rambling (@Eli_App_D) March 17, 2017
If also is going by how often I tweet #mscedc, then I could just tag everything I do and the also will say I joined in lots?
— Eli's inane rambling (@Eli_App_D) March 17, 2017
@nigelchpainting @Cheneehey @rennhann shall we test? a tweet just consisting of keywords and see what happens, like saddles? #mscedc
— Eli's inane rambling (@Eli_App_D) March 17, 2017
@nigelchpainting @dabjacksonyang @rennhann oh that’s a good un. Mostly businesses that are following me #mscedc
— Eli's inane rambling (@Eli_App_D) March 17, 2017
@c4miller yeah U know I’m going to have to go through it all and “tidy up” don’t you #mscedc
— Eli's inane rambling (@Eli_App_D) March 17, 2017
@c4miller yeah U know I’m going to have to go through it all and “tidy up” don’t you #mscedc
— Eli's inane rambling (@Eli_App_D) March 17, 2017
@Cheneehey @rennhann @nigelchpainting that's some random financial advisor now following me #mscedc
— Eli's inane rambling (@Eli_App_D) March 17, 2017
hastag #mscedc https://t.co/GY44Li77M9
— Eli's inane rambling (@Eli_App_D) March 17, 2017
@j_k_knox #mscedc – did you STEAL the password @james858499 ?
— Eli's inane rambling (@Eli_App_D) March 17, 2017
@RossGarnerGP @james858499 @c4miller @HerrSchwindenh_ @rennhann stu may not be in good mental place & take positives from being told #mscedc
— Eli's inane rambling (@Eli_App_D) March 17, 2017
@rennhann @nigelchpainting not exactly piling on and not ususally people I would want to follow back, but my blog gets serious spam #mscedc
— Eli's inane rambling (@Eli_App_D) March 17, 2017
@Cheneehey @nigelchpainting @Digeded @dabjacksonyang @j_k_knox so do benefits out weight risks or do we need more data? #mscedc
— Eli's inane rambling (@Eli_App_D) March 16, 2017
@Cheneehey @learntechstu @j_k_knox #mscedc but skewed due to circumstances unknown to the algo. Reasons for pattern which aren't positive?
— Eli's inane rambling (@Eli_App_D) March 16, 2017
@Cheneehey @nigelchpainting @philip_downey #mscedc slippery slope which always changes. "Back to basics anyone"? (UK reference)
— Eli's inane rambling (@Eli_App_D) March 16, 2017
@Digeded @dabjacksonyang @j_k_knox could recommend be harmful? Chosing recommended course 4 the wrong reasons? "nudge" at play. #mscedc
— Eli's inane rambling (@Eli_App_D) March 16, 2017
@nigelchpainting @ClareThomsonQUB @j_k_knox assign submissions, not a value of quality, student could submit blank doc to trigger LA #mscedc
— Eli's inane rambling (@Eli_App_D) March 16, 2017
@c4miller @rennhann @j_k_knox hate to say it but been there, last job – the LMS, not allowed, so all learning could be tracked #mscedc
— Eli's inane rambling (@Eli_App_D) March 16, 2017
@j_k_knox on the flip side of learner centred – as a stick to assess/review teacher performance? #mscedc
— Eli's inane rambling (@Eli_App_D) March 16, 2017
@j_k_knox
General Data Mining about how 2 personalise & adapt teaching & learning (Siemens 2013) LA about measuring the impact?#mscedc— Eli's inane rambling (@Eli_App_D) March 16, 2017
thanksfor the recomendation @j_k_knox , really enjoyed
Santorum’s Google problem, and Google’s Santorum problem #mscedc— Eli's inane rambling (@Eli_App_D) March 15, 2017
Jeremy recommended some possible readings I may enjoy. He as right.
If you want to delve deeper into IFTTT (sign in with your UUN) https://t.co/9urxCnzwzg#mscedc
— Eli's inane rambling (@Eli_App_D) March 14, 2017
It’s no secret that I’ve fought a long battle with IFTTT.com in order to get it to act the way I want and do the things I expect of it. This week I chose to look at it from outside the setting of my course blog and look at the tool in its “natural” habitat and I was actually a bit impressed. It can do some really useful things to help make life a bit easier, like send a text to my wife to let her know I’ve left work, or send a text when I am at a certain point on the journey home. This one is handy for knowing when to put the tea on but I found another use for it. I thought it would be a great piece of data to use to show that algorithmic data can easily be misinterpreted and how different people might interpret it differently.
I set this up to publish a post to my blog to let the world know every time my phone GPS picked up that I was at Moray House, School of Education. My thinking that as a student of Moray House, this would be seen as significant and could be interpreted that I was there to visit the library of for studies. The fact that the algorithm should kick off twice every day, once in the morning and once at around 5:15 pm, I thought might imply that I as arriving and leaving for my day’s studies.
My intention of this play around with the algorithm was to see what conclusions my classmates drew from the minimal data:
It’s not a lot of information to go on and therefore involved “interpreting” what this information means. This was exactly the point I wanted to make, that with learning analytics, we are interpreting data, when we may not actually have enough of the picture to fully understand that data in context. As Yeung( 2017) stated of algorithmic use, in her paper concerning the use of data to affect behaviours,
Big Data ’ s extensive harvesting of personal digital data is troubling, not only due to its implications for privacy, but also due to the particular way in which that data are being utilised to shape individual decision-making…
Unfortunately, my experiment didn’t happen as, yes you guessed it, the IFTTT algorithm didn’t work, not even once. So instead of having a minimal amount of data to interpret to represent our possible failures of learning analytics, we have an algorithm that doesn’t fire at all and returns no data. I guess this gives us a whole different learning experience and another algorithmic potential to be critical of.
Yeung, K., 2017. “Hypernudge”: Big Data as a mode of regulation by design. Information, Communication and Society, 20(1), pp.118–136.
@lemurph me too!!!!!!! #mscedc
— Eli's inane rambling (@Eli_App_D) March 13, 2017
Helen’s tweet about the lecture this week raised a smile as I was feeling just as excited abut the opportunity to participate in a lecture. Even though I know there is a raging debate about the benefits and drawbacks of our lecture based education system and how effective it may be, I thrive when there is an opportunity to listen instead of reading. Something that there has not been a lot of opportunities for in the ODL offerings I’ve experienced and so I was gleeful.
I wondered if Helen’s joy at a lecture was because it felt more like being an on-campus student and therefore a stronger connection to our assumptions about what it would be like to study at university, or if her joy was because like me she found listening or watching a better tool for her learning.
Whether or not you think learning styles are a real thing (which is a whole different educational conversation), people do have different strengths and weaknesses, different habits and different abilities. Reading and writing are such core values of the education system that they are the backbone of almost every course.
I raise this as an opportunity, with my classmates studying Digital Education with the intention of moving into a career in an educational setting, or indeed who already work in an individual setting – a chance to ask you to think about your course design and how it brings out the best in your students and gives them the best opportunity to learn and I wonder, how will a student with reading difficulties fair in your course? Is there an opportunity to use digital tools in a way that flips traditional teaching on its head, a way to level the opportunity to for all the student on your course?
If you were designing a new course for the Digital Education programme, how would you do it? What tools would you use? What would you keep from your experiences and what would you change?
Just some random food for thought.
Still no week 9 video. Is @j_k_knox feeling the pressure to outdo @james858499 perhaps?#mscedc
— Eli's inane rambling (@Eli_App_D) March 13, 2017
@LinziMclagan my favourite is
💪 👌👌 it means totally perfect… apparently. #mscedc— Eli's inane rambling (@Eli_App_D) March 10, 2017