Sarah's E-learning and Digital Cultures Blog » cyborgness http://digitalculture-ed.net/saraht Part of the MSc in E-learning at the University of Edinburgh Tue, 28 Sep 2010 09:48:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Does this course make me a cyborg? http://digitalculture-ed.net/saraht/2009/11/14/does-this-course-make-me-a-cyborg/ http://digitalculture-ed.net/saraht/2009/11/14/does-this-course-make-me-a-cyborg/#comments Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:54:38 +0000 saraht http://digitalculture-ed.net/saraht/?p=228 Does reliance on assistive software make us a cyborg? Is the use of distributed cognition, via this reliance, an example of ‘cyborgness’? If this is the case then if when school children or students are allowed to take calculators into exams, and rely on this technology in order to answer the questions (that is, they [...]]]> Does reliance on assistive software make us a cyborg? Is the use of distributed cognition, via this reliance, an example of ‘cyborgness’? If this is the case then if when school children or students are allowed to take calculators into exams, and rely on this technology in order to answer the questions (that is, they do not know how to work out the problem unassisted, but they are able to use the relevant application to get the answer) does this mean that we are nurturing the cyborg within?

According to a geology lecturer I was talking to recently, he would be able to ‘be’ a geologist without the digital technology available to him. I do not think that a lecturer in IT would be able to ‘be’ without digital technology as the raison d’etre of her job is tied so tightly to the the type of technology she uses. Is she then, to a certain extent, in one of her identities, living as a cyborg? Does this course make me a cyborg? Is that what you were setting out to do?

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