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Liked on YouTube: Elon Musk explains how we will become cyborgs

Liked on YouTube: Elon Musk explains how we will become cyborgs

Elon Musk explains how we will become cyborgs
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via YouTube https://youtu.be/y6rqNLDnO94

It’s interesting that Musk mentions science fiction at the start of this video. Science fiction often becomes science fact…

From: http://io9.gizmodo.com/all-the-times-science-fiction-became-science-fact-in-on-1570282491

Liked on YouTube: The Coded Gaze: Unmasking Algorithmic Bias

Liked on YouTube: The Coded Gaze: Unmasking Algorithmic Bias

The Coded Gaze: Unmasking Algorithmic Bias
Debuted at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, The Coded Gaze mini documentary follows Poet of Code Joy Buolamwini’s personal frustrations with facial recognition software and the need for more inclusive code. Learn more at www.ajlunited.org
via YouTube https://youtu.be/162VzSzzoPs

– Knox 2015

– Eynon 2013

Liked on YouTube: Is The Internet a Public Place?

Liked on YouTube: Is The Internet a Public Place?

“Is The Internet a Public Place?
Why you CAN’T say whatever you want on the web….

On the internet, you meet lots of people, have lots a conversations with strangers, end up in spots where it feels like anyone can gain access–so it would be understandable if you thought of the internet… as a public place. But… is it? Is the internet a public place? I imagine, and talk about, the internet as a set of locations traveled between. Heck you kinda have to: the thing at the top of your browser is called a LOCATION BAR, you put in ADDRESSES, you go to SITES. But, if the internet is a place it exhibits a PLACEHOOD unlike physical places. “Going” to those internet places is unlike “going” to physical ones–we can be in more than one internet place at once, move between them effortlessly and attach or detach a persistent identity. So even if the internet FEELS like a public place, is it really? And should we expect the same free speech privileges on the internet as we do in real life public spaces?”

 

—FURTHER READING & SOURCES—

Buzzfeed article:
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Atlas Obscura event:
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CASE: Christopher Langdon v. Google Inc., et al.
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CASE: Pruneyard Shopping Center v. Robins (No. 79-289) 447 U.S. 74
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CASE: Lloyd Corp., Ltd. v. Tanner 407 U.S. 551 (1972)
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Liked on YouTube: Are We All Cyborgs?

Liked on YouTube: Are We All Cyborgs?

Are We All Cyborgs?
THE FUTURE IS NOW

Whether it’s using animals to farm, the printing press or the modern computer, there’s no doubt technology has played a hugely important part in our lives for as long as we can remember. But today, there are more and more people mixing technology and biology in what is quickly emerging as a cyborg identity. But what counts as cyborgian? Pacemakers and bionic limbs, sure, but what about glasses? Fitness trackers? Yoga? Or even… birth control? Today Mike sits down with Rose Eveleth, host of the podcast Flash Forward to discuss what our modern day perception of a cyborg is, and why it might not be totally accurate.

Notes: 

  • Hypnosis and yoga as cyborg capabilities…?
  • Cyborg – women – controlling the body – birth control.
  • What ‘feels’ like cyborg technology?
  • Body Hacking Con
  • Posthuman – focus is on the human
  • Haraway – the ways in which women are subversive – their bodies are ‘unnatural’.
  • What is the normal body? What is an enhancement? What is a medical necessity?
  • You get to choose your identity; open up more choices for people. Cyborg can be an identity – something you can identify as.
  • What is the way to be your best self?

To  read: Katherine Hailes – How we became Posthuman

 

 

 

Liked on YouTube: Donna Haraway’s ‘A Cyborg Manifesto’: A Brief Overview

Liked on YouTube: Donna Haraway’s ‘A Cyborg Manifesto’: A Brief Overview

Donna Haraway’s ‘A Cyborg Manifesto’: A Brief Overview
A Pecha Kucha presentation on the article ‘A Cyborg Manifesto’, written by the renowned scholar Donna Haraway.
via YouTube https://youtu.be/lqglzX_y5wM

Notes:

  • Cyborg as a metaphor.
  • Third party – bridges gaps – not X or Y but Z.
  • War is a cyborg orgy creating destruction.
  • A world without gender (with questionable reference to ‘typical feminist’).
  • Cyborg does not remember the cosmos.
  • Determinist?
  • Fractured identities – we all have multiple identities.
  • Cyborg writing – there is power to be had.
  • Dualisms: black/white, male/female, primitive/non-primitive. Cyborg ignores dualism. One is too few, but two are too many.
  • We are cyborgs.
Microsoft Whiteboard

Microsoft Whiteboard

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This was one of my favourite new products demoed at BETT. Microsoft are releasing ‘Whiteboard’ for free. It can be used on any Windows 10 device,  so can be used by both teachers and pupils.

BUT…

…my reading of Bayne makes me question whether such ‘tools’ are simply reinforcing presumptions about ‘a pre-existing set of practices which are not in any need of radical shift or displacement…’ (Bayne, 2014, p.10). Why are we still using boards…?

 

Why is technology important in education? #2

Why is technology important in education? #2


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Technology use driven by need, by a gap.
‘Both TEL and transhumanist discourses are driven by the instrumental view of technology as being in service to the human and social…technology is viewed primarily as a ‘tool’ which has the capacity to make learning and/or the human ‘better’. (Bayne, 2014, p. 14)