Comments on: WEEK 1 – Blurring the lines https://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/bhenderson/2015/01/19/week-1-blurring-the-lines/ Education and Digital Cultures January 2015 Sat, 14 Mar 2015 18:32:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 By: Jeremy Knox https://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/bhenderson/2015/01/19/week-1-blurring-the-lines/#comment-3 Tue, 20 Jan 2015 13:59:32 +0000 http://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/bhenderson/?p=26#comment-3 This is a super week 1 summary Ben. I’m really glad you raised these notions of utopia and dystopia, so different and opposed, yet aligned in the sense that they are driven by technology. These rather extreme options seem to often be the only way we can talk about the future, but I wonder if technological change is a bit more nuanced than that?

‘at what stage does the technology become part of us, how long before it inevitably happens and can we ever go back?’

These are great questions to be grappling with during the course, and it would be good to develop this line of questioning as we progress through the blocks. Perhaps somewhere to begin is defining exactly what the ‘us’ is, and what we could ‘go back’ to, if indeed we can. Is there an ‘us’ that is entirely separate and distinct from technology?

In terms of your future weekly lifestream summaries, it would be good to remember that it is your *lifestream* that you are providing a summary of, rather than just the weekly themes. So, what we’d really like to see here is reflection in the feed items you have added – the specific tweets or videos – saying why you have added them, how the core readings might have influenced you to do so, and how they might be influencing your thinking on the course.

Also, I like your blog customisation, looking great. Hope you can make the film festival this week: Friday 23rd 10am GMT

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