Yearly Archives: 2010
Translation Project: Forgotten Connections. On Culture and Upbringing
I’ve been working to bring one of the most important educational texts from postwar Germany educational works to an English audience. I’ve now got a draft translation ready for proofreading, and will be collaborating internationally to develop it further. In … Continue reading
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Education and the Social Web: Connective Learning and the Commercial Imperative
ARTICLE ABSTRACT: In recent years, new socially-oriented Web technologies have been portrayed as placing the learner at the centre of networks of knowledge and expertise, potentially leading to new forms of learning and education. In this paper, I argue that … Continue reading
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Dissection & Simulation: Transparency or Encumbrance?
Dissection and Simulation [slideshare id=4931568&doc=ihsrc2010-100809182930-phpapp01] View more webinars from Norm Friesen. A slidecast of a paper (fulltext) that I recently gave at the International Human Sciences Research Conference at the University of Seattle. Here’s the abstract: The increasing use of … Continue reading
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Place of the Classroom and Space of the Screen
Just submitted a manuscript to the publisher for review: The Place of the Classroom and the Space of the Screen: Relational Pedagogy and Internet Technology. The manuscript looks at the lived experience of Web applications commonly used in education: technologies … Continue reading
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Online Dissection: An encounter with the new/other or just more of the self-same?
Just finished revisions to the paper, Dissection and Simulation: Brilliance and Transparency, or Encumbrance and Disruption?, which will soon be appearing in the online journal Techné. Here’s the abstract: The increasing use of online simulations as replacements for animal dissection in … Continue reading
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"Ontologizing" Media Studies
Reading WJT Mitchell and Mark Hansen’s introduction to their Critical Terms for Media Studies: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/532554.html They describe media as an ontological condition that is always-already part of our situation –it is something in which “‘we live and move and have … Continue reading
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Generations and Educational Change
The “net generation” (also known as “generation y,” “millenials” or “digital natives”) has been defined as those born in industrialized nations between 1977 and 1997, and thus exposed to innovations like personal computers, the Internet, and mobile phones at a … Continue reading
Media Theory, Education and the University
A paper I’ve been working on with Darryl Cressman that focuses on Kittler’s media theory and education. One element that this paper traces over a number of mediatic developments (revolutions?) is the role of pictorial elements (above) in conceptualizing and … Continue reading
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DIY U Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation…
A new book from Anya Kamenetz looks at the crises (rising tuition, falling standards) and opportunities (cc content, blended learning) that institutions of higher learning are confronting. This examination is thoughtful and thoroughly-researched. It avoids the apocalyptic predictions that Tapscott … Continue reading
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Podcasting & Slidecasting for Dissemination in Teaching and Research
Podcasting and Slidecasting [slideshare id=3187688&doc=podcasting-100215153601-phpapp01] View more presentations from Norm Friesen. This is my presentation from the Teaching Practices Colloquium at TRU. The abstract is below and the slidecast version is above. You can ensure your presentations reach the widest … Continue reading
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