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Some of the ideas I’ll be exploring in the months — my research semester starts in 18 months — to come. * I’m lousy at titles. I might end up using some variation of the number of the post for 2024. Or not.
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Some of the ideas I’ll be exploring in the months — my research semester starts in 18 months — to come. * I’m lousy at titles. I might end up using some variation of the number of the post for 2024. Or not.
Continue ReadingOk, then. #edcmooc has begun, and the first unit is about utopias and dystopias. Naturally enough, given the focus on digital culture and education, we are to look at the first assignment while contemplating education… At first we are asked to watch 4 short films. They are Bendito Machine III Inbox Thursday and NewMedia All of them have a different take on technology. Bendito Machine is a fairly standard parable about the dangers of technology, specifically televion, telling us how it corrupts a society. The more subtle background is a commentary on how perhaps humans are dependent on something to…
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