Comments for Andy's E-learning and Digital Cultures Blog

Comment on Skeumorphs by blackbird rider

blackbird rider — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 04:00:56 +0000

My friend and I were arguing about this! Now I know that I was right. lol! Thanks for making me sure!

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Comment on Never mind the culture, what about digital tools? by Damien DeBarra

Damien DeBarra — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:56:47 +0000

Very useful Andy – thanks. Will try to post my own list of new favourite tools.

Comment on Final Assignment – proposal by Sarah Payne

Sarah Payne — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:55:51 +0000

Hi Andy
Thanks for sharing your ideas, they sound great. I hope that we will get to see each other’s work once we have finished the course because I think there will probably be some incredibly innovative work being generated by everyone.

Comment on Andy’s Ethnography Study – Steelmen Online by lesley ferguson

lesley ferguson — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:42:18 +0000

Hi Andy really liked your introductory comment appealed to my sense of humour….so, in the end it was a study of a bunch of blokes talking about football then?? lol
would be interested to know what was your conclusion about yourself and your online behaviour and was your conclusion subjective or objective?

Comment on Andy’s Week 10 Review by jen

jen — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:32:36 +0000

Andy, it seems that by ‘objective’ here you are meaning replicable? As in, you’re looking to see if your experience of the technologies in use this semester can be shown to work the same for other people? I’m a bit skeptical about that because I think learning is highly context dependent. Which isn’t to say that we shouldn’t try to be rigorous in our analysis of what is and isn’t working in a given context, just that I wouldn’t think that finding that a lifestream (for example) didn’t work in one situation would take away from its effectiveness in another. Similarly, trying to make a judgment about ‘digital learning’ in all its possible permutations would seem to lack the specificity needed to say anything substantive. The book that our Hand reading from block 1 came from really stresses how local and specific digital cultures are, and I suppose that’s where I’m coming from on this one!

Comment on Andy’s Week 10 Review by Ale Abby

Ale Abby — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:30:34 +0000

Very nicely written article, hope people get more awareness from your article.

Comment on The Fog Clears by sian

sian — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:36:26 +0000

Thanks Andy – I’m glad you found the paper helpful in this way (beautiful video too). I like your description of your changing relation to the lifestream – from prosthesis/fusion to record/representation/archive. I need to think more about this, as it seems to connect learning with both ‘re-familiarisation’ and distancing. How to connect this (if at all) with the uncanny I’m not sure, but it’s a really interesting idea.

Comment on The Fog Clears by silvanad

silvanad — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:17:39 +0000

I agree with you Andy that Haraway was on the far end of the digital cultural spectrum. And if we each look at the Twitter traffic as well as any blogs we wrote (or not)that week in our lifestreams we will see that it reflects that discomfort. I think that this weeks readings really pulls it all together – and relates it to pedagogy.

Comment on Andy’s Week 9 Review by Silvana

Silvana — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:35:12 +0000

Hi Andy,

It is the same in my household except I am the one who works mainly from home. My husband feels the same way about computers as your wife and gets annoyed when I am at my pc too long.

I think a large amount of my knowledge is situated online. I think that people are more or less connected to their computers/the web based on their needs and circumstances. And this can be differential within families. (interesting that this aspect has not appeared in any of the literature we have read so far.) I couldn’t have started my own business back in 1997 without the internet – for marketing myself – both in the UK and the USA. So it has been an important feature of my life since then. And I have become more and more proficient with computers and the web.

My husband’s work started to use computers later and in a more limited way. So his needs for computers has been less and while over the years he has started to use them, he does not use them to the extent that I do. And he has a very utilitarian use for them whereas I like to play and explore what I can do. And sometimes he gets annoyed when I ‘work’ too much when I am really playing and enjoying what I am doing.

But I am in danger of becoming a pc and he keeps me grounded in RL.

Comment on Andy’s Week 8 Review by jen

jen — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:19:12 +0000

hi Andy – great summary of your thinking about the Cyborg Manifesto – I agree with your conclusion that Haraway is primarily offering a challenge to her society to rethink its reliance on binaries and boundaries. In terms of how this relates to e-learning, I hope we’ll discuss this more in week 10, but her discussion of technologies as ‘instruments for enforcing meanings’ (p45) seems relevant here – perhaps e-learning is sometimes a practice of “translating the world into a problem of coding”.