December 2009
15 posts
The uncanny
The Uncanny (unheimliche; literally “unhomely” in german) is a Freudian concept where something can be familiar, yet at the same time alien, resulting in a sense of it being unnervingly strange.
“we are presented with the interesting notion of the learner as a cyborg - an...”
– Robin Usher Lost and found: ‘cyberspace’ and the (dis)location of teaching, learning and research 1998 pg 4
“education as a modernist institution is characterised by the ‘spaces of...”
– Robin Usher Lost and found: ‘cyberspace’ and the (dis)location of teaching, learning and research 1998 pg 3
“Featherstone and Burrows (1995: 5) define cyberspace as - ‘a cluster of...”
– Robin Usher Lost and found: ‘cyberspace’ and the (dis)location of teaching, learning and research 1998 pg 2
“The ruling illusion of digital reality is its antiseptic cleanliness. A virtual...”
– C Theory Multimedia: Digital Dirt accessed 8th December 2009
“Pedagogy can no longer be seen simply as the ‘authoritative’ transmission of...”
– Robin Usher - Lost and found: ‘cyberspace’ and the (dis)location of teaching, learning and research pg 1
“The number of people a user actually communicates with eventually stops...”
– Social networks that matter: Twitter under the miscroscope by Bernardo A. Huberman, Daniel M. Romero, and Fang Wu 2009
“It doesn’t make much difference how the paint is put on as long as...”
– Jackson Pollock
“Learner-centered approaches are reflected in practices in which the instructor...”
– Gary Brown & Nils Peterson - The LMS Mirror: School as We Know IT versus School as We Need IT and the Triumph of the Custodial Class Accessed 5 December 2009 21:35
“Each new reader in the electronic environment can her- or himself become a...”
– Rick Carpenter: Boundary Negotiations: Electronic Environments as Interface (2009) pg 140
“The conceptualization of the positivistic, solitary, stable owner of words and...”
– Rick Carpenter: Boundary Negotiations: Electronic Environments as Interface (2009) pg 140
“This brave new world of new rhetorics and literacies includes but extends beyond...”
– Rick Carpenter: Boundary Negotiations: Electronic Environments as Interface (2009) pg 140
“Although popular discourses and genres are no longer denigrated within academia...”
– Rick Carpenter: Boundary Negotiations: Electronic Environments as Interface (2009) pg 139
“The conventional view of students as passive, oblivious consumers of mass media...”
– Rick Carpenter: Boundary Negotiations: Electronic Environments as Interface (2009) pg 139
“something I’m learning from this course is that this kind of teaching is all...”
– Sian Bayne commenting on blog entry by Sarah Payne called “Further thoughts on Bayne and a place of ghosts” with reference to the nature of the MSc course Elearning and Digital Cultures