Good summary here Ben, and your lifestream in general is shaping up nicely. I like that you have lots of comments feeding in, and this really helps to surface the discussions that are happening around the blogs – nice work. Two things that you could build on here are: 1. more commentary on the specific lifestream content each week, and 2. some reflection on educational concerns.
Firstly, I notice that you’ve got your tweets feeding into the lifestream, so it would be good to experiment with some different recipes in IFTTT now that we are entering week 3 – you could perhaps try getting your YouTube favourites to feed in? Or perhaps some bookmarks for Delicious or Diigo? This will give you some more content to reflect upon in the lifestream summaries.
Secondly, you’ve highlighted some really important themes around posthumanism, cybercultures, and memory, which is fantastic. As we’re working towards the end of this block, it would be good to try and consolidate these explorations by coming back to the question of education. How have these cultural understandings of human, technology and memory fed into the ways we understand education technology? The Bayne (2014) core reading will be good here.
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Hi Jeremy, Ive start adding Instagram into my lifestream to make it more visual and generate discussions, Youtube doesnt seem to publish my favourites onto the blog so Ive used Twitter instead to share the videos.
Now that Ive had a few weeks to get to grips with the basics of posthumanism and transhumanism, I have now began to focus more on how the themes are represented within an educational context and what are the arguments involved.
From the Bayne article as well as “Is ‘the posthuman’ educable?”(http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/01596301003679750#.VM0JGvmsV8E), I can begin to formulate that on one hand there is the ‘humanist’ approach to learning which involves values, emotion as well as incorporating ideas from Maslow (1943) and Rogers (1980), and on the other hand there is this ‘systematic’ approach to learning supported by digital technologies. I hope to investigate these ideas in more depth over the next week.
The Bayne article has also got me thinking about how terms such as TEL have been received in my professional practice. I have always felt that technology is often seen as an “add-on” within some organisations and terms such as TEL can create more of a divide and resistance.