Sight
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"Sight explores how the ubiquity of data and the increasingly blurry line
between the digital and the material might play out in the sphere of
human relationships". edcMOOC
The learning is a process that we all undertake consciously or without really thinking about it. However when learning is made to be fun activity where there is inquisitiveness, defectiveness or making the learner to achieve something challenging, it is more entertaining. Also it allows the skill to be developed easily compared to boring activity where the learner has to struggle to gain the skill.
Game based learning in the educational context as well as in the professional development scenarios work in an effective manner. However, the trainer has to make sure the game based learning add value rather than just providing badges to every person, and very move that takes place, which devalues the idea of game based learning.
Wednesday, 6 February 2013
Tuesday, 5 February 2013
Productivity future
Future....
The future that this video is indicates will be at our door step soon. With the current research and developments, these devices will be available in the market soon.
In businesses, education institutes and in individuals personal life activities will be changed by using the luxury facilities these devices provide. However, we need to understand what we intend to achieve with the use of these devices.
Is it only a marketing/sales strategy to add more features or do they bring efficency to our daily life?
The future that this video is indicates will be at our door step soon. With the current research and developments, these devices will be available in the market soon.
In businesses, education institutes and in individuals personal life activities will be changed by using the luxury facilities these devices provide. However, we need to understand what we intend to achieve with the use of these devices.
Is it only a marketing/sales strategy to add more features or do they bring efficency to our daily life?
A Day Made of Glass 2
A Day Made of Glass 2
This a video that explains what the near future will be. It also enables use of technology to make decisions, arrange days activities and carry out tasks in an efficient and effective manner. The younger generation, the digital natives will only see the world through these devices. They also might not know a world that was without these gadgets. Such devices can be used to enhance learning experiences.
However like with many technological advances, this production raises few questions about the effectiveness of the devices and other tools if basic requirements such as wifi are not available.
Education visualised :
The education has been visualised through communication and with the use of technology. The technology has been introduced as the main tool that facilitates most of the learning and teaching. However, it never represents that human teacher student interaction is removed nor robot are used to educate people.
Nature of communication in these future worlds:
Nature of communication according to this video is more like using different technological mobile devices. It represents developments in the technological devices for the purpose.
Utopian or a Dystopian visions :
Without boundaries the world will be a small connected place creating an Utopian vision
This a video that explains what the near future will be. It also enables use of technology to make decisions, arrange days activities and carry out tasks in an efficient and effective manner. The younger generation, the digital natives will only see the world through these devices. They also might not know a world that was without these gadgets. Such devices can be used to enhance learning experiences.
However like with many technological advances, this production raises few questions about the effectiveness of the devices and other tools if basic requirements such as wifi are not available.
Education visualised :
The education has been visualised through communication and with the use of technology. The technology has been introduced as the main tool that facilitates most of the learning and teaching. However, it never represents that human teacher student interaction is removed nor robot are used to educate people.
Nature of communication in these future worlds:
Nature of communication according to this video is more like using different technological mobile devices. It represents developments in the technological devices for the purpose.
Utopian or a Dystopian visions :
Without boundaries the world will be a small connected place creating an Utopian vision
Saturday, 2 February 2013
Ideas and interpretations: Is man a tool-using animal?
Chandler, D. (2002). Technological determinism. Web essay, Media and Communications Studies, University of Aberystwyth. Download as PDF.
Key points:
Technology led theory:
The two main categories are:
Technology is the basis of society in the past, present and future and considers cause and effect relationship
Benjamin Franklin apparently first coined the phrase that 'man is a tool-using animal'.
It was such a long time ago that Franklin had stated this, but when you think even today most of us are tool-using creatures? Some of us get involved in making them too. But most of the time we use what has been made by others. Such a great saying!
Thomas Carlyle echoed this in 1841, adding that 'without tools he is nothing; with them he is all'
How can you prove this to be wrong, imagine you without your phone for a day! How lost are you. It is like you are being put into a dark whole cut off from the whole world. But with a set of tools what is the thing that we can not do....?
Leslie White's statement place everything into context, when he declared 'We may view a cultural system as a series of three horizontal strata: the technological layer on the bottom, the philosophical on the top, the sociological stratum in between...
These readings are really good they are thought provoking....
Key points:
Technology led theory:
The two main categories are:
- Technology PUSH
- Demand PULL
Technology is the basis of society in the past, present and future and considers cause and effect relationship
Benjamin Franklin apparently first coined the phrase that 'man is a tool-using animal'.
It was such a long time ago that Franklin had stated this, but when you think even today most of us are tool-using creatures? Some of us get involved in making them too. But most of the time we use what has been made by others. Such a great saying!
Thomas Carlyle echoed this in 1841, adding that 'without tools he is nothing; with them he is all'
How can you prove this to be wrong, imagine you without your phone for a day! How lost are you. It is like you are being put into a dark whole cut off from the whole world. But with a set of tools what is the thing that we can not do....?
Leslie White's statement place everything into context, when he declared 'We may view a cultural system as a series of three horizontal strata: the technological layer on the bottom, the philosophical on the top, the sociological stratum in between...
These readings are really good they are thought provoking....
Web based technology connecting people?
Inbox - Short film
Do n't we always connect with people now with the technological advancements? Have we ever stopped to think if these technology was not there what life would be.
Good old days it was only a face to face encounter that we got to know people. Other method was to read about another person either through a book or a news paper. And then came the telephone which enabled connecting with people easily...and it did not take much time to have computers and mobiles...also not to mention our dear friend WWW.
Now we are 24 X 7 connected with the whole world, with anyone and everyone. It has made the word quite small and connected. Hope it also has made people happier and wiser?
Do n't we always connect with people now with the technological advancements? Have we ever stopped to think if these technology was not there what life would be.
Good old days it was only a face to face encounter that we got to know people. Other method was to read about another person either through a book or a news paper. And then came the telephone which enabled connecting with people easily...and it did not take much time to have computers and mobiles...also not to mention our dear friend WWW.
Now we are 24 X 7 connected with the whole world, with anyone and everyone. It has made the word quite small and connected. Hope it also has made people happier and wiser?
edcmooc week 1 readings
Bendito Machine:
This is the first resource that I am watching for week 1 of edc mooc. This video is reminding me of the good old days when we first got our TV, good old days. But at that time people used to sit and watch TV as if it was the greatest thing that was around. Many people stayed up in the night to watch movies and stopped going to the cinemas etc. All in all the new device was considered the best item on earth that gave the best times for young and old. However, as time went pass, there were so many critiques about the TV and how it impact childhood out door play and suitability of the programs etc.
People started to weigh the pro and cons and think before they let their kids watch certain telecasts on TV and they also restricted the time allocated as the younger generation became obese and un healthy.
It nt it the same thing that has happened with many other tools( our new toys)? Computers. Laptops, phones and now ipads and iphones, They all bring great innovation into our society. At the same time people would know how to and when to use these devices to make the best use of them,
This great short animation, well represent how people embrace and value these new tools forgetting many other important factors, Also, how un sustainable we could be by just throwing fully functional devices just to get few more features in a new device.
These are quite different aspects of the same coin, should you not gain the benefits of the new tools...or should you be just switching to the latest model just to get the new feature?
This is the first resource that I am watching for week 1 of edc mooc. This video is reminding me of the good old days when we first got our TV, good old days. But at that time people used to sit and watch TV as if it was the greatest thing that was around. Many people stayed up in the night to watch movies and stopped going to the cinemas etc. All in all the new device was considered the best item on earth that gave the best times for young and old. However, as time went pass, there were so many critiques about the TV and how it impact childhood out door play and suitability of the programs etc.
People started to weigh the pro and cons and think before they let their kids watch certain telecasts on TV and they also restricted the time allocated as the younger generation became obese and un healthy.
It nt it the same thing that has happened with many other tools( our new toys)? Computers. Laptops, phones and now ipads and iphones, They all bring great innovation into our society. At the same time people would know how to and when to use these devices to make the best use of them,
This great short animation, well represent how people embrace and value these new tools forgetting many other important factors, Also, how un sustainable we could be by just throwing fully functional devices just to get few more features in a new device.
These are quite different aspects of the same coin, should you not gain the benefits of the new tools...or should you be just switching to the latest model just to get the new feature?
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