Browsed by
Month: January 2017

Got chatting to the man next to me on the train. Told me that his wife has had artificial lenses fitted in her eyes. #cyborg #mscedc

Got chatting to the man next to me on the train. Told me that his wife has had artificial lenses fitted in her eyes. #cyborg #mscedc

from http://twitter.com/helenwalker7
via IFTTT

‘Modern medicine is also full of cyborgs, of couplings between organism and machine’ (Haraway, 1991, 149)

‘…anyone with artificial limbs or organs and anyone who is prescribed mood altering or cognitive behavioural medicines can rightly be considered cyborgs’ (Miller, 2011, 212).

@dabjacksonyang Add your name to the recipe? See this from @Eli_App_D https://t.co/vxp1l5cdZF #mscedc

@dabjacksonyang Add your name to the recipe? See this from @Eli_App_D https://t.co/vxp1l5cdZF #mscedc

from http://twitter.com/helenwalker7
via IFTTT

The frustrations around setting up IFTTT recipes were heightened by the awareness that we had to get it right if we were going to get the feeds into our (assessed!) lifestream. I’ve worked in IT for most of my career and one of my capacities which has been honed over time is tenacity: I’ve learned that – usually – when something technical doesn’t work, it’s because I’m not doing something right, as was the case when I first set up my failed recipe. Technological literacy requires tenacity and, in my experience, students are often more tenacious than their teachers. Adoption of technology in schools is often ‘blocked’ by ‘first pass failures’: something is tried, ‘it’ fails and it is not used again.