The richer definition of uncanny provided by the Scots Dictionary confirms for me that the use of uncanny as a descriptive term when speaking about digital pedagogy is both apt and illuminating. (The following examples are purely personal and represent many hours of rumination as I drove back and forth to work.) Back in the [...]
The Dictionary of the Scots Language (online version) defines uncanny as: DSL - DOST (Uncanny,) Uncannie, adj. Also: uncany, -kannie. [Canny adj.] a. Malicious, mischievous. b. ? Aggressive, threatening. c. Unreliable, untrustworthy; incautious. — a. Sum now, vncannie sawers, sew sum causes of contentioun betuene the Chanceller and the Gouernour; Dalr. II 58/24. — b. Order to [...]
