Over the last week, I have been focusing my attention on Digital Ethnography including different ideas and methodologies associated with the area. Knowing little about the concept of ‘ethnography’ at the beginning of last week, I was able to research various methods of analysing online cultures, from the early days of the web to todays communication era and see how the process has developed.… Read more →
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After dipping in various MOOC offerings, I ended up choosing the EdX Vocal Recording Technology course delivered by Berkeley University in a bid to pick up a few singing pointers whilst conducting my digital ethnography. Having participating in a few MOOCs from a learner pespective, it will be interesting to be a ‘fly on the wall’ and observe participant behaviour.… Read more →
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Moving on from cyborgs and cyper-punk culture this week, I aimed to gather further understanding of the relationship between posthumanism and education from the arguments and challenges displayed in the Bayne and Miller readings. Alongside these notions, new questions began to emerge such as, ‘Is the posthuman educable? and How do we educate the posthuman? Early in the week, I worked on… Read more →
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I often hear the term ‘Technology Enhanced Learning’ used when trying to sell the idea that a shift towards more ‘digital’ learning tools will somewhat improve the educational experience. By including the word ‘enhanced’, possibly suggests the previous format is insufficient in some areas, and that technology can enrich and reinvigorate an out of date model for learning. However, it may suggest that technology is simply improving an… Read more →
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