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Comment on Pinned to #MSCDE on Pinterest – Week 1 artefact by hmurphy

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Thanks for this, Eli! This was a super clever way of conceptualising the affective progress we’ve made, while also being a comment on how hard it is to break away from an ethnocentric perspective.

I also liked your use of the word ‘promise’; there’s something in the promise vs the reality which is so interesting. Thanks!

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Comment on Weekly round-up: Week 3 by jknox

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Interesting to hear that you’ve tried to limit tweets going into your lifestream. I was waiting for someone to suggest this! Might be a good way of keeping your lifestream focused on particular ‘choice’ items, a way of ‘curating’ it. That doesn’t mean, of course, that you don’t still continue to use Twitter, just that you control your lifestream a little more.

Good to also see you reflecting on education, and seeing this feature in your lifestream. Critical thinking is definitely the way to go here – think back to IDEL week 3 and 4 on criticality. This also reminds me that Jen shared a useful video on critical thinking in Twitter today:

https://twitter.com/jar/status/827458892879818752

The idea that lecture capture is a good thing could certainly be questioned, from institutional, teaching, and student perspectives, each with different nuanced. One of the key ways we can use scifi critically on this course is to recognise that it can be very flawed, however it can also be creative. The dystopic visions of surveillance cultures in scifi are definitely creative ways of perceiving our current use of technology, and a good way of developing a critical angle. Perhaps this is something to bear in mind for the final assignment? It might be productive to link things to your current work with lecture capture?

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Comment on Comments on Matthew’s blog by msleeman

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Eli, I’m passing through your blog at present, and don’t honestly know if I’ll pass this way again (the multiple blogs are enormous and growing to try and travel them all, and back again, and I’ve not got any alerts on them, to save drowning my feed). Just a quick comment: I’ve felt Pinterest has been incredibly ‘flat’ as an experience. Just pinning. I don’t know if I’m missing something – do you think I am?

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Comment on Tweet! Vlogging versus virtual classroom by hwalker

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Eli, this post reminded me of my mortifying experience many years ago when I applied to become a TEFL teacher. Part of the interview process required us to teach our fellow interviewees something. The other applicants were brilliant: we were taught the basics of using a chanter, how to ask for directions in Chinese and the Two Step.

I had arrived with only five tea-towels, ready to teach everyone how to transform them into chickens…

We focused a lot on the inherent value of the process of learning (anything!) in Digital Game-Based Learning. Gamers have to learn how to play games and that requires a multitude of skills and attitudes which have real value. How to recognise the value of that learning and how to harness those skills and attitudes within the structures and strictures of an often rigid formal educational framework is the challenge. These are two useful chapters about the transfer of learning from video games to ‘RL’ : http://ift.tt/2kDgqAm

http://ift.tt/2l81OWK

(If you’re interested, I’ll try and get an instructional ‘make a chicken’ video sorted over the weekend!)

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Comment on Fear versus promise by jknox

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Interesting post here Eli, and a nice connection between scifi and ‘the day to day’ of education technology.

I think this is one of the key things we are trying to explore in this course: whether ideas from scifi films or literature can ‘bleed down’ and influence our ideas about technology. It seems here that the surveillance of 1984 becomes the way that the ‘data capture’ of video lectures is understood. In that sense, the ideas from 1984 might provide a useful frame for taking a critical stance on lecture capture.

I suppose one could imagine that the next step after video capture is the student rating of videos, and perhaps the next step after that is the using of ratings to measure teaching performance?

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Comment on Weekly round-up: Week 2 by jknox

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Really nice summary Eli!

It’s good to hear this feedback about IFTTT. It’s not perfect, but it does seem to have the kind of flexibility we need for the lifestream in this course: being able to add feeds from a wide range of sources.

I really liked some of the topics discussed here. This division between technology as a legitimate aid or a necessity is interesting, isn’t it? One might think about that in terms of where we situate the boundary between the human and the technology: the former seems to imply an authentic human ability, which the technology seems to ‘enhance’, while the latter doesn’t seem to be as clear. If the task cannot be done by humans alone (number crunching huge amounts of data, for example), it seems to indicate something more like the entangled condition that Bayne (2014) discusses? If we can’t perform a task without technology, then, when we get the tech that does it for us, we change our behaviour as a result, right?

Great to see you experimenting with the format here. It seemed pretty well done to me, although I guess I was focusing more on the audio than the visual. I recommend thinking about the 250 word length guidelines here, and how they might translate into a summary of this sort. Everything you were talking about here was relevant and interesting though, but do try to stay within the discipline.

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Comment on Weekly round-up: Week 2 by cmiller

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I found the animation to be some what nauseating. Similar, to that which can happen in some VR experiences. Two things to get around that

1) Provide a fixed point of reference or frame the movement – perhaps in this case, having the presentation appear on a computer screen inside your recording would work?

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2) Mouse scroll smoothing. I don’t even know if that’s a thing….

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Comment on Commenting on Philip’s blog by npainting

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>If we were reliant on the technology, would we just stop doing these things if we didn’t have access to tech or would we just do things a different way, using different, non-digital tools?

I think the latter. I guess we need to remember that the sharpened stick, the plough, the printing press and so on were the cutting-edge technologies of their day and they were the catalyst for equally seismic cultural shifts. One thing we can be reasonably sure about is that that we’ll be doing it all differently at some point in the future and we’ll be looking back on the way we do things now with equally fond memories / bemusement depending on your view point. Oh and some people will still be using a paper calendar.

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