Comments on: Final Assignment Topic Proposal – Tracking the Invisible Online Learner https://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/pfameli/2015/03/29/final-assignment-topic-proposal-tracking-the-invisible-online-learner/ Education and Digital Culture 2015 Course Lifestream Blog Mon, 30 Mar 2015 21:26:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 By: sbayne https://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/pfameli/2015/03/29/final-assignment-topic-proposal-tracking-the-invisible-online-learner/#comment-2237 Mon, 30 Mar 2015 21:26:01 +0000 http://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/pfameli/?p=1896#comment-2237 I like the sound of where you’re going with this PJ. Is it your intention to relate the idea of ‘invisibility’ to digital surveillance cultures, and the way in which availability of data leads us to expect and sometimes seek a greater visibility than in ‘pre digital’ contexts? For example, if elements of learning take place off the screen, why do we need to think in terms of ‘evalutating’ them? Are we seeing a rising expectation in education that such learning might be tracked and ‘rendered visible’ in some way?

The following readings might help?

Data entry: towards the critical study of digital data and education, Neil Selywn

The politics of transparency and the calibration of knowledge in the digital age, Hans Krause Hansen

On the format, I like the idea of video – if you wanted to extend on this to say more about the theory of your work, or to indicate references and citations, you could write a short textual ‘rationale’ which might give you more scope to be experimental in the video itself.

I’m not quite clear how the manifesto element is going to brought in here (would it relate to the form of the piece in some way?) so would like to hear more about this at some point.

Great to see the thoughts coming together!

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