Silvana's E-learning and Digital Cultures Blog » Videos http://digitalculture-ed.net/silvanad Part of the MSc in E-learning at the University of Edinburgh Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:39:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Utopic Day http://digitalculture-ed.net/silvanad/2009/10/17/utopic-day/ http://digitalculture-ed.net/silvanad/2009/10/17/utopic-day/#comments Sat, 17 Oct 2009 11:46:17 +0000 silvanad http://digitalculture-ed.net/silvanad/?p=48 Here is the companion piece to Dystopic Day.  Had a lot of trouble synchronizing things so this is the best I can do technically.   Dystopic Day should be watched first. 

I always find it easier to conceive of a dystopia rather than a utopia. Many years ago I read Dante’s Divine Comedy.  I could relate very well with Hell and Purgatory but not Paradise (I never finished reading Paradise). Any way, this is my conception of a utopic day at work. I wonder whether many of the dystopic images of a digital future we viewed during the film festival were really related to our current non-digital conceptions of dystopias.  Whereas it is much harder to depict a utopican digital future.  Just a thought.

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]]> http://digitalculture-ed.net/silvanad/2009/10/15/dystopic-day/feed/ 13 Dystopic view of E-learning in future http://digitalculture-ed.net/silvanad/2009/09/25/dystopic-view-of-e-learning-in-future/ http://digitalculture-ed.net/silvanad/2009/09/25/dystopic-view-of-e-learning-in-future/#comments Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:15:30 +0000 silvanad http://digitalculture-ed.net/silvanad/?p=16 Just found this video giving a dystopic view of the future of e-learning.

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Does not address who is in charge behind the technology -> feeding in the ‘appropriate’ information. Emphasizes the passivity of students – Castell’s ‘interacted’ as opposed to the ‘interacting’.

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