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Here’s the link EDCMOOC Digital Artefact by Keisha Kamaris

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In previous posts, we talked about utopias and dystopias of digital age – our relationship, as humans, with technology and how it would ‘define’ our future, especially in education. Is technology taking over humanity? …but what is humanity? Continue reading →

Read This At Your Own Risk ! Do you ever feel that you are being controlled by external forces and go through life almost mechanically… working with robotic precision on tasks at hand, without being able to spare much thought on what you are doing ? Two extremely hectic, whirlwind weeks during which I felt […]

I watched Steve Fuller’s talk and read the article on “Humanistic Education” and I was genuinely surprised and confused! They were talking about a kind of thinking about education, that I had never heard of. Having studied philosophy, worked with learning for years and being in teaching and learning #edtech since 2008 I was puzzled…

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What is a human and what makes us human? – Well I’m just going to go with the biological definition and stick to “member of the race Homo Sapiens” – wikipedia has an excellent page on Human, well worth a look even if you’re not currently doubting your own existence, uniqueness or sameness to other creatures. I particularly like the description of symbolic communication and what thereby follows:

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Before I proceed to EDCMOOC’s next block, Being Human, let me take you to the thinking behind the following two visuals that are representing what I have learnt so far.

This one above is called Digital Connectivity. Continue reading →

This article was originally posted by me on 12 Aug 2012 on my personal blog from a customer service perspective – a representation of how technology is reducing the human interaction in business transactions. I am sharing it here once again as it is still relevant from the perspective of being human. I received a […]

A day made of glass 2 and Bridging our future (below) both gave utopian visions of how technology could shape day to day life and more significantly for me as an educator, the classroom of the future. In many ways the visions show little change, with many day to day objects and devices such as the alarm clock, the car and the tablet, still featuring and playing their current role but a little ‘shinier’.

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  Originally written for the 2013 run of EDCMOOC. I am literally Drowning In A Sea Of Information, and yet I am starved for knowledge.  When I enrolled in the EDC MOOC, little did I realize what I was heading for. Continue reading →

This post was originally written by me for the EDCMOOC blog last year. In another couple of weeks, we will all be working on our artefacts – some may have already begun to do so. One common type of artefact that people submit is a video based on one of the themes of the programme. Continue reading →

After looking into how some utopian and dystopian visions portray the future of learning technology in this post, we now look into how metaphors represent the relationships between humans and technology, some probable scenarios, and how they would impact the future. We will then talk further on their relation to the future of education in the next post.

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Some interesting video stimuli for week 1. Firmly within the dystopia camp, The Bendito Machine III suggested the idolisation and worship of technology, likening machines to tribal gods with a good spray of death amongst the wonder. However the reign of the machines was limited, only to be discarded every time a more impressive ‘ruler’ came along; echoing the throw away attitudes of our society with the once gods now permanent residents of the land fill junk yard. Continue reading →

In sociology and philosophy, agency is the capacity of an agent (a person or other entity), to act in a world. The short film, Thursday, depicts two people and a bird family with hugely varying ways of acting and interacting with the world. The mother bird is shown flying free in the beginning of the […]

In my post Looking to the Future: Popular Cultures, I ended the commentary by questioning the work scope of educators as presented by the utopian visions of Corning and Intel.

A recap on the question – the two utopian visions show how a classroom teacher work seamlessly with digital technology in interacting with students, would educators then (in this future utopia) ideally need to be somewhat tech-savvy and master the art of digital pedagogy? Continue reading →

The film Bendito Machine III, that we watched last week on the E-learning and Digital Cultures MOOC, tells the story of technological development in terms of ritual and worship. The tribe treats each new technology with god-like reverence, and damns the preceding technology to the scrap heap.

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Firstly, I have forgotten that the video-sharing site, vimeo, is blocked in Indonesia (so is reddit and imgur)… I know I’m able to use a VPN but it is so frustrating to find vimeo be blocked, especially since it hosts amazing HD videos worthy to learn from. Moving on…

In this week’s lesson, instead of retrospecting, we’re looking to the future. Continue reading →

The first week’s perspectives on education are showing their age – not just in design *hello screaming yellow web 1.0 background colour* but also in their views of the internet as being one thing, and that thing being either good or bad – it’s all white hats Vs black hats in the wild west:

Cerraulo (2002) advocates the view that progress fueled by technology is inevitable, and we must stop struggling and resisting, or we will go under like the IBM who didn’t understand the potential of personal computing: Universities and teachers must embrace e-learning at speed. Continue reading →

Noble’s piece in 1998 titled Digital Diploma Mills: The Automation of Higher Education, presented many points that are still very much relevant today, most especially, for me as an educator and a designer, regarding the (commercialization of) automated education.

When I was working as a lecturer, to hear that some universities were requesting (perhaps forcing? Continue reading →

I’ve just finished watching the Week 1 Hangouts session of EDCMOOC. Great insights and definitely a nice way to get a summary of what’s been going on with the course – I’ve missed the opportunity to be more active in the discussion forum and will do so in the upcoming weeks.

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I am re-blogging here a post that was originally written by me during the November 2013 run of EDCMOOC. Call it a satire, or what you will, but I shudder to think of such a future, a life so fragile. Picture this.. Continue reading →

Must technology either be a depicted as dystopia or utopia? Didn’t we get past that since the great dystopia of 1984 (back in 1948!) – well that was my thought at the beginning of the week, peeking at the curriculum for the Edinburgh U coursera course E-learning and Digital Cultures, aka #EDCMOOC
And I still hold the view that many depictions of technology these days are a bit more nuanced than just “technology is good” or bad, for that matter. Continue reading →

Let me first apologise to you for the way I communicated with you yesterday. It was mean and horrible. I called you gullible and made fun of you. Continue reading →

This was originally posted by me on my blog – The MOOCS Explorer in the last run of EDCMOOC in 2013, towards the end of the first week. I am reasonably certain that there will be many out there in the current run, who would be feeling totally lost and overwhelmed, as I was way […]

Hello everyone. Just a little note to let everyone know that the video of the Week 1 Hangout has been uploaded on EDCMOOC ROCKS. You can watch the video on the site itself, or download it as an MP4 file in case you do not have access to YouTube where you are located. Continue reading →

Ok.. so I missed the official start date of 3rd November as I was travelling, but as they say, better late than never, so here I am, getting ready to roll with the EDCMOOC. This is my second time here – the first time was as a participant, and this time round, as a CTA […]

For the first week of E-Learning and Digital Cultures course, there are three sets of resources for students to engage with: (1) Popular cultures; (2) Ideas and interpretations; and (3) Perspectives on education.

The popular cultures set consists of a selection of short films which represent, in very different ways, the theme of utopia-dystopia which is the main focus of the first block of study. Continue reading →

NEWMEDIA from MOLI Studio on Vimeo. Humanity in the tentacles of technology, A totally dystopian representation of a world that is on the mercy of technology, in my view. This video is quite similar to the Bendito Machine, or perhaps, can even be called a logical sequel to it, following the dystopian view-pint. Continue reading →

Instead of Art and Design in Education MA, I have decided to pursue Digital Media, Culture and Education MA instead – upon further research (and a looooooot of thinking), “media ed” seem to offer a lot more in terms of what I would like to achieve; gaining and applying knowledge in (design) education delivery via tools/mediums that are current and progressive, whilst utilizing my skills an experience as design theory lecturer and graphic designer.

It’s great to have discovered E-Learning and Digital Cultures course provided by The University of Edinburgh on Coursera. Continue reading →

I talked to a machine this morning. I actually had quite a nice chat. The machine was a robotic teacher. Continue reading →

I remembered when the first time I left my hometown for attending my fresh man life in the university, my mother accompanied me to arrange my dormitory for the first 2 days. Since she came home, I started to call her every night. That is the popped memory when I started to think what is […]

I came across a query from a participant who was new to Twitter. and wanted to know how to use Twitter. Well, the fact is that Twitter can initially be somewhat confusing to a newbie. Continue reading →

The more we learn, the more we discover about the extent of our ignorance.  This is an undeniable fact. Till the time one does not try something new, one has no idea how much he /she does NOT know about it, and yes, it is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. Continue reading →

Obviously, the last time I took the course E-Learning and Digital Cultures from the University of Edinburgh, I didn’t do much of the course. My offline life took away my time. But I followed the course along and was very impressed by the quality and intensity of the interaction this course encouraged. Continue reading →

The topic of MOOCs came up with a colleague today and having never done one before I thought I should try one out. I headed for Coursera and happened across the E-Learning & Digital Cultures MOOC from Edinburgh University. I saw one of the course team @hamacleod speak last week and the MOOC went live this week so it was obviously meant to be! Continue reading →

Even though I only just finished an intense 18 months of E-Learning Instructional Design study with the University of California, Irvine , I’ve just gone back to college.

I’ve decided to try out my first MOOC, a little bit down to to professional curiosity and a little because I think it’ll be good for my own CPD. Continue reading →

Today I have joined a MOOC!

I’ve never done this before and I am hoping to find out, firstly what they are all about and secondly if I am able to learn and network this way. Continue reading →

This blog is temporarily getting re-purposed.  I will be posting my responses as part of the coursework for a Coursera MOOC out of the University of Edinburgh, E-Learning and Digital Cultures

BENDITO MACHINE III depicts a group of “villagers” who worship any new technology that comes along. Continue reading →

This blog is temporarily getting re-purposed.  I will be posting my responses as part of the coursework for a Coursera MOOC out of the University of Edinburgh, E-Learning and Digital Cultures BENDITO MACHINE III depicts a group of “villagers” who worship any new technology that comes along. They are shown, both literally and figuratively, putting […]

This blog is temporarily getting re-purposed.  I will be posting my responses as part of the coursework for a Coursera MOOC out of the University of Edinburgh, E-Learning and Digital Cultures I really loved this quirky movie! We are presented with a young woman who is clearly standoffish based upon the initial social “interactions” that […]

Its my first experience with mooc!

To be frank, I was not sure what Mooc is! Continue reading →