Helen's EDC blog

” For every shot of a generously breasted naked cyborg plummeting from the top of a building, there was a scene in which characters grappled with knotty philosophical questions. What is the nature of identity when the brain is souped up with cyber-implants and the soul is reduced to a series of electrical impulses? (Incidentally, the question of why a cyborg would need a gigantic pair of knockers in the first place was left unanswered.)”
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Bathos at its most politically incorrect best.

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This is more promising…

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I’m not sure that Twine is going to work. It’s a straightforward, linear story I want to ‘write’. I’m ignoring the screaming in my head which is telling me ‘PowerPoint, just use PowerPoint’. I can’t *shudder*.

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See comment on Twine…

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Starting to think about how to display my ethnography. There is some brilliant work on show here.

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I am deeply interested in mobile robots for two reasons: (1), they are complex and potentially useful machines that embody just about every design challenge and discipline there is and (2), robots allow us to address some deep questions about life, emergence, culture and intelligence in a radically new way, that is by building models. Thus, robotics is for me both engineering and experimental philosophy.”
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The attack on our higher education system — and why we should welcome it
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“MOOCs are still young. Rarely has an education innovation swept as rapidly through our world. The discussion they have generated reflects a university system struggling with its transition to a digital world. The continued influence of universities in shaping and serving society is promising for learners and for society. But the transition will bring into question many sacred ideals. The hegemony of traditional public universities will be augmented with new players — and frankly, we should all welcome the onslaught.”

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Some readings around transfer added to Diigo: sparked by reading Eli’s blog post about the value of learning any skill.
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