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Location >> All those lego bricks talking to each other… and talking to us. Lego bricks as a metaphor for possible learning objects (things)! The image above I think can be interpreted as a sea of available learning possibilities, being assembled and re-assembled. Agency in learning, being apparent, within the ability of learning, and learning [...]

I think a lot of what we have looked at in #ededc naturally complements the direction I took in Learning Futures. So I’m considering investigating the opposite for #ededc final assignment (a little chiaroscuro / gestalt going on maybe), the identity and location of learner rather than teacher. This would ‘kind’ of cross all #ededc [...]

Posthumanism is very slippery! Education and the “preoccupation with the project of ‘the human’” (Pedersen, 2010, p. 243), bit of an epic theme! Subject as opposed to Object; if I were to consider ‘subject’ as being central to Education and ‘the human’ project; subject being, what has unique experiences and has unique consciousness, and object [...]

This has something to do with the work I carried out in Learning Futures… I’m struggling to find a position on Edwards Posthumanism relationship with Life Long Learning. If I see Posthumanism as a critique of humanism (in all its colours), what specific relation has Posthumanism with Life Long Learning? Don’t we need to bottom [...]

“A separation of matter from meaning, the object from the subject” “Distinction made by Latour between matters of fact/objects and matters of concern/things” (Edwards, 2010, The end of lifelong learning) This is a problematic (and/or uncomfortable) paper… Surely “a thing, a gathering around a matter of concern” (Edwards, 2010) inherently produces ‘concern’? Asking the question, [...]

The Lloyds Building “Blending modernist ideals with sympathy for the surroundings, the Lloyds’ insurance building is perhaps a post-modern masterpiece” (http://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/history/heritage/the-lloyds-building) No applied decoration, and a definite element of simplification of form – not sure the ‘OU’ are correct here, but Rogers is ushering in the Postmodern… Has the Lloyds Building an element of Cyborg [...]

Week Nine, another very interesting week! This week sees my thinking build on the work I carried out in Learning Futures as well previous posts. Considering Multipleselves, identity in learning (BabelFish) and possibilities, to Hayles ‘Semiotics of Virtuality’. This concept is very much related to (not sure how yet though) Critical design, institutional identities and [...]

“We could look for the beauty, very broadly understood, natural and social, in the outcomes of our interactions with the environment, and we could try to work on and amplify that when we find it” “But just about everywhere in time and space out-side the reach of industrial capitalism, the blueprint for the engagement with [...]

If we can see it, we can understand it, we can influence it, and understand how it affects us. Bioinformation – DNA profile >> Twitter Data Use of the Day: Mapping the Languages of New York City >> Recorded brain-wave viewing application >>

“A second way to think about the organisation of How We Became Posthuman is narratively. In this argument, the three divisions proceed not so much through chronological progression as through the narrative strands about the (lost) body of information, the cyborg, and the posthuman body” (Towards embodied virtuality, Hayles, 1999, p21) => (lost) body of [...]