Comments on: Weekly Synopsis Post (Week 1) https://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/emajoos/2015/01/18/weekly-synopsis-post-week-1/ Life. Love. Technology Tue, 17 Mar 2015 12:30:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 By: jknox23 https://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/emajoos/2015/01/18/weekly-synopsis-post-week-1/#comment-4 Sun, 18 Jan 2015 15:12:49 +0000 http://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/emajoos/?p=29#comment-4 Hi Emlyn,

This is good summary of transhumanism, and it’s great to see you raise these ideas of what it means to ‘be human’ this week. I like your use of images here too, good stuff!

The question you pose about human obsolescence , which Clare highlights too, is great – I wonder what the implications for education might be here? Are we ultimately limiting ourselves by viewing implants and enhancements as ‘unnatural’?

For future lifestream summaries, it would be great to include reflections on your lifestream feeds and posts, rather than just a review of the weekly themes. What we’re looking for here is some commentary on *why* you’ve added particular content from Twitter, YouTube, or any other feed, how the course themes and readings have influenced those choices, and the ways your lifestream content might be influencing your understandings of course topics.

Great start here though Emlyn, keep it up!

]]> By: Clare https://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/emajoos/2015/01/18/weekly-synopsis-post-week-1/#comment-2 Sun, 18 Jan 2015 09:43:03 +0000 http://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/emajoos/?p=29#comment-2 “Is the transhumanism event leading to human preservation and transcendence or ultimately human obsolescence? ” Interesting question Emlyn, and I’m not really sure what my answer is yet.

Also looking forward to week 2!

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