All the EDC blog posts » assignment http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/allposts all posts from course participants are gathered here. Click a title to visit that post and comments! Mon, 01 Oct 2012 11:07:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 Visualising the final assignment http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/annar/2011/12/19/visualising-the-final-assignment/ http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/annar/2011/12/19/visualising-the-final-assignment/#comments Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:06:44 +0000 Ania Rolińska http://10.12925 Continue reading →]]> I’m thinking of making a rhizome out of my favourite threads: visuality and posthumanism and what they can/should mean for the academia, all in the form of a video. I thought I could use some of the visual artefacts created on this course (and some of the related comments too) as an illustrative example of how academia might embrace visuality in the posthuman dance.

If you could please tell me if you agree or disagree to me reproducing your visual artefacts and/or comments, either in the comment area here or by emailing me, that would be great! Thanks! :-)

 

Other than that, many thanks for the enjoyable learning experience, good luck with the final assignment and the best wishes for the coming holidays!

]]> http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/annar/2011/12/19/visualising-the-final-assignment/feed/ 0 Summary: Week 11 http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/danielg/2011/12/04/summary-week-11/ http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/danielg/2011/12/04/summary-week-11/#comments Sun, 04 Dec 2011 18:53:14 +0000 Daniel Griffin http://14.9047 Continue reading →]]> We’re nearing the end of the taught part of the course and the beginning of the assignment section so my time has been used this week to refine my lifestream, correcting any errors and employing a consistent style for any references in the weekly summaries.  More on this subject in my final summary, but for now my other main focus has been on beginning the final assignment.

I am still very much interested in the themes of post humans and distributed consciousness and I have spent some time considering these ideas in greater detail this week (lifestream 27.11.2011 #1 and 01.12.2011 #7, #9, #11, #12).  I’ve also spent a little time revisiting the ideas of Artificial Intelligence and human computer interaction (lifestream 03.12.2011 #2, #3) and this has lead me to think about how humans and groups of humans interact with computer systems (lifestream 03.12.2011 #1).  It’s fascinating to think about how groups might become empowered beyond the now well recognised notion of emergent collective group intelligence, through interaction with computer systems (lifestream 04.12.2011 #3 to #10).  If groups can be extended and enhanced through the use of artificially intelligent agents and expert systems, then this must of course have profound consequences for teaching and learning.

So having finally selected a topic for the assignment, it’s time to settle down properly into a single research area.  My lifesteam is already beginning to reflect this, with the range of topics and ideas narrowing daily and moving I hope, towards a focal point.  It must be interesting to watch this process from the outside and to see how I have refined my ideas as I progress.  I now see clearly what a perfect lens the lifestream is to document this journey.

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