Comments on: Weekly Synthesis (Week 1) https://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/njenkins/2015/01/17/weekly-synthesis-week-1/ "If you could see what I have seen with your eyes ..." Wed, 11 Mar 2015 14:20:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 By: Jeremy Knox https://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/njenkins/2015/01/17/weekly-synthesis-week-1/#comment-11 Mon, 19 Jan 2015 12:11:36 +0000 http://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/njenkins/?p=52#comment-11 Great, thanks for the ref!

]]> By: njenkins https://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/njenkins/2015/01/17/weekly-synthesis-week-1/#comment-10 Sun, 18 Jan 2015 16:28:36 +0000 http://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/njenkins/?p=52#comment-10 Thanks Jeremy!

This is really helpful, and I will incorporate more commentary and reflection on the selection of material and its role in shaping my ideas, as you suggest :)

In relation to references, I was referring particularly of Bauman, Z. (1991) Modernity & Ambivalence. Cambridge: Polity Press.

]]> By: jknox23 https://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/njenkins/2015/01/17/weekly-synthesis-week-1/#comment-9 Sun, 18 Jan 2015 15:48:37 +0000 http://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/njenkins/?p=52#comment-9 Hi Nick,

This is a super summary of the week, and an excellent proposition of two principal themes. Great to see references to literature in there as well – although adding some links (if possible) to some of these works would be really useful to others. I’d certainly like to follow up on the Bauman work you mention.

It is really great to see the idea of binary opposites raised here – it’s a very helpful way of approaching many of the themes in this course I think, and one that I seem to return to often. A ‘nature – technology’ split seems to justify our privileging of essential and authentic human characteristics, yet they seem to me to be pretty hard to isolate and define. What are the educational implications of this kind of dualistic positioning I wonder? What exactly is this ‘humanness’ that is under threat, or in line for enhancement, though technology use in education?

This is a really excellent distillation of themes, and for future weekly summaries I’d recommend adding a bit more reflection on your lifestream itself. What we’re looking for here is some commentary on why you’ve added particular tweets, images or videos in the feeds, how course themes and readings have influenced those choices, and how your specific lifestream content might be shaping your understanding of the course.

Great start here Nick!

]]> By: njenkins https://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/njenkins/2015/01/17/weekly-synthesis-week-1/#comment-8 Sun, 18 Jan 2015 15:42:48 +0000 http://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/njenkins/?p=52#comment-8 Thanks Katherine! I found it really difficult to know how to compose the summary, and I didn’t really refer to any of the tweets etc that I’d sent to my lifestream over the week, and which I probably should have! Will look forward to reading yours and others, so I can pick up some pointers on how to tweak the formula for subsequent weeks.

]]> By: njenkins https://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/njenkins/2015/01/17/weekly-synthesis-week-1/#comment-7 Sun, 18 Jan 2015 15:40:52 +0000 http://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/njenkins/?p=52#comment-7 Hi Clare
Thanks for commenting. Yes I think homo faber helps to highlight that are use of digital technology is an extension, rather than a move away, from our technology in previous eras. Looking forward to Week 2 as well! :)

]]> By: njenkins https://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/njenkins/2015/01/17/weekly-synthesis-week-1/#comment-6 Sun, 18 Jan 2015 15:38:57 +0000 http://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/njenkins/?p=52#comment-6 Hi PJ
Many thanks for your comments. I very much agree. Bayne’s article is very useful in highlighting some of the undercurrents shaping the mantra of technology enhanced learning, and of the dangers of viewing technology as separate from the social, discursive (and ideological) contexts in which learning occurs and in which ‘humans’ are socially produced.

]]> By: PJ https://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/njenkins/2015/01/17/weekly-synthesis-week-1/#comment-5 Sun, 18 Jan 2015 14:19:19 +0000 http://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/njenkins/?p=52#comment-5 Nick, by extension of your themes of (1) the role of digital technologies and education, and (2) the human-machine binary problematic, I think it is also helpful to consider Sian Bayne’s (TEL reading) view as digital education practitioners, we need to move away from the education-technology, and “acknowledge that the two are ‘co-constitutive'”. (p. 14)

]]> By: Clare https://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/njenkins/2015/01/17/weekly-synthesis-week-1/#comment-4 Sun, 18 Jan 2015 09:37:20 +0000 http://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/njenkins/?p=52#comment-4 Hi Nick, have just posted my summary for week 1 and am now reading yours. Totally agree that the concept of homo faber is helpful in highlighting how man has always sought to use tools to compensate for his limitations, and that technology is in fact just another ‘tool’. Also picked up on the way we perceive ourselves to be under threat from advancements in technology but related it specifically to AI. Very interesting week and looking forward to week 2!

]]> By: Katherine https://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/njenkins/2015/01/17/weekly-synthesis-week-1/#comment-3 Sun, 18 Jan 2015 00:10:29 +0000 http://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/njenkins/?p=52#comment-3 Thanks for this post Nick. You are one of the first to post your synthesis, so it’s great to see what you’ve done as I get ready to do mine. I like the way you present two problems, both resolved by the concept of homo fabor.

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