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Comment on After a couple of false starts in Wix and Glogster, I used Prezi for my visual artefact: https://t.co/5NaXQHy7fp #mscedc by hwalker

Comment on After a couple of false starts in Wix and Glogster, I used Prezi for my visual artefact: https://t.co/5NaXQHy7fp #mscedc by hwalker

Thanks Nigel. I was hoping that the first few would serve to highlight how little has actually changed: we’ve put technology into those spaces but have not – as Bayne highlights – really looked at radical shifts in pedagogical practice.

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Comment on Lifestream summary: week 3 by hwalker

Comment on Lifestream summary: week 3 by hwalker

Hello James,

Hope the playlist building is going well.

Yes, I guess – particularly with our focus in this current block – that it’s useful to consider the blog as a communal space. Discussion around the artefacts appears to have encouraged us to ‘roam’ more into each others’ spaces: I’ve had a lot more comments from others this week.

I was introduced to Bruner years ago when I first trained to be a teacher. He highlighted the importance of revisiting concepts to consolidate and extend understanding: ‘A curriculum as it develops should revisit this basic ideas repeatedly, building upon them until the student has grasped the full formal apparatus that goes with them’ (Bruner, 1960, p.13). The non-linear nature of our blogs and our interactions, along with the multiple strands of information and communication is, for me, facilitating this ‘spiralling’.

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Comment on Visual artefact by Renee Furner

Comment on Visual artefact by Renee Furner

I was really impressed by your work, Helen. Although I didn’t really realise it until I tried to produce an artefact, I think I struggled to understand what the assignment even meant, in terms of ‘getting’ what the real aim was (i.e. not your work, but producing work visually, since I’m not yet confident with either my own visual representation skills or the array of tools available to help). Your visual artefact makes it very plain: you do an excellent job of making complex ideas simple through your visual representations. This was especially poignant with the comparison of old and ‘new’ classrooms, which I felt was done with a great deal of finesse.
Like Chenée, I also appreciated the notion of the datafication of children (through education) producing cyborg-like (machine-like) vessels. In my mind it doesn’t just dehumanize students – I think it works to dis-establish genuine relationships between students and teachers (I’m thinking primary school, but maybe it can be extended to other educational levels).
Thank you for such a well-constructed and insightful presentation.

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Comment on After a couple of false starts in Wix and Glogster, I used Prezi for my visual artefact: https://t.co/5NaXQHy7fp #mscedc by npainting

Comment on After a couple of false starts in Wix and Glogster, I used Prezi for my visual artefact: https://t.co/5NaXQHy7fp #mscedc by npainting

As I commented on Twitter the juxtaposition of the contrasting images if very effective and thought provoking. Well done you 🙂

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Comment on Visual artefact by Eli

Comment on Visual artefact by Eli

I really enjoyed the journey through technology. It’s too easy to forget that new educational technologies weren’t always digital, yet sparked the same debate about how they would ruin/change education and or the human mind 🙂

Eli

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Comment on “A Real Hero” by College & Electric Youth added to mscedc playlist on Spotify by hwalker

Comment on “A Real Hero” by College & Electric Youth added to mscedc playlist on Spotify by hwalker

Liner notes: haven’t read any of those for decades (damn Spotify). Okay, the key reason I added this to the playlist was the refrain of ‘real human being’; I guess we’ve spent three weeks thinking about what that concept actually means in a digital age and it seemed ‘trite’ in relation to that. On further rooting around (in response to your prompt), it seems that College and Electric Youth were inspired by Sully (of Hudson River fame) and Mad Max…http://ift.tt/2llqIpT.

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Comment on “A Real Hero” by College & Electric Youth added to mscedc playlist on Spotify by jlamb

Comment on “A Real Hero” by College & Electric Youth added to mscedc playlist on Spotify by jlamb

I’m listening to this now whilst making this reply.

Obviously there’s the title, however was there something about the song that particularly resonated with any of the readings or the course themes we’ve been discussing? A short bit of metadata would be good here – almost like liner notes in fact, explaining why this song made it onto the album.

I like it. Another one for me to download, for sure.

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Comment on Lifestream summary: week 3 by jlamb

Comment on Lifestream summary: week 3 by jlamb

Hello Helen, a really nice (and nicely critical) weekly summary here.

‘As I’ve already mentioned, this process is an interesting one, with the blog allowing for a spiralling* return to ideas and concepts. I did, however, wonder about *your* experience as readers. Will you be willing to return to ‘old’ ground, will you see the additions? Are you a new reader anyway? Or am I simply throwing ideas out into the ether which will never be read…?’

I think I would see the blog as an ongoing conversation, not only between us but with the wider group at different times. Of course there’s always the danger that I won’t hear your reply with so much happening therefore if there’s something you’d particularly like me to comment on (which I haven’t) please do just let me know. There’s so much attention grabbing content across the lifestream blogs that it’s possible I might miss something so do just shout out to get my attention!

I’m unfamiliar with Bruner’s work therefore please do tell me more if the situation arises in your blog.

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