Marshall McLuhan’s statement “the medium is the message” is interpreted as encouraging us to notice changes that accompany a new medium, in order to shape the development of the innovation and use it effectively (Federman, 2004). Such an approach is suited to our challenge: to develop and deliver an undergraduate module called Emerging Technologies to 450 students across eight different degree subjects in a United Kingdom Business School.
Emerging technologies: medium and messages
August 4th, 2009 · 6 Comments
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Still blogging my way through Edupunk and re-finding Digital Literacy
April 14th, 2009 · 4 Comments
This recent Edupunk conversation rumbles on:
Stephen Downes in OL Daily seems concerned that Martin Ebner ’s approach is insufficiently unwashed.
Graham Attwell quotes Scott Wilson’s Personal Learning and Web 2.0 presentation on how institutions can respond to Web 2.0.
I agree with Graham that the music analogy is getting stretched - I even spent some time looking [...]
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Learning to love the term Edupunk
April 8th, 2009 · 8 Comments
I have been scratching my head to see why the term Edupunk raises vague and irrational feelings of irritation and suspicion in me. I love the philosophy of bricolage, workarounds and experimentation that it seems to encompass. After all the ‘poster boy’ for Edupunk, Jim Groom, has been blogging his experiments and thoughts on BuddyPress [...]
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