http://ipseity.blogsome.com Norm Friesen: 1. pron. Himself; truly himself; in his right mind. (OED) Sun, 18 Feb 2007 19:48:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Please see newer posts at http://ehabitus.blogspot.com. http://ipseity.blogsome.com/2007/02/18/this-blog-has-moved/ This new paper of this same title develops three themes following up on an article I wrote in 2005 with Andrew Feenberg: "Ed Tech in Reverse": Information Technologies and the Cognitive Revolution (to be published in Educational Philosophy and Theory). These three arguments are: 1. From the camera obscura through ... http://ipseity.blogsome.com/2007/01/21/discursive-psychology-and-educational-technology-beyond-the-cognitive-revolution/ Slavoj Zizek provides an engaging commentary on the Time magazine “person of the year” for 2006 (”you”): The Guardian, Dec. 31, 06 The short piece picks up towards the end where Zizek clarifies his thesis with the perverse image of a frog in amourous embrace with a bottle of ... http://ipseity.blogsome.com/2007/01/12/the-frog-and-the-bottle-of-beer/ Overeducated in the knowledge age? It is commonly asserted that "knowledge," "information" or more abstractly, "the networked" or "the postindustrial," are eponymous for our society, age or economy. These assertions, of course, are seen to bring with them urgent implications for all levels and forms of education–from the preparation of children ... http://ipseity.blogsome.com/2006/11/24/the-myth-of-the-knowledge-economy-2/ I recently came across this diagram from G. Stahl that outlines the philosophical influences behind prominent English-Language learning theories. It is definitely a good start, but like any overview, invites refinement (e.g. a lot more could go between Kant and constructivism than just Piaget, or between Hegel and situated ... http://ipseity.blogsome.com/2006/09/03/learning-theories-the-philosophical-family-tree/ Wikipedia is the biggest fish in what is becoming a very big pond of community developed websites. These are pages where the public, the online collective, act as volunteer editors responsible for gathering content from a number of sources. Some people call it Hive Mind. Jaron Lanier calls it Digital ... http://ipseity.blogsome.com/2006/08/28/digital-maoism-jaron-lanier-on-cbc-podcast/ The Myth: It is often said or implied that technology or technological change impact education. They are seen as acting as a kind of “disruptive force,” requiring the adaptation, transformation or sometimes even the elimination of educators and educational institutions alike. The assumptions behind such understandings are that technology drives ... http://ipseity.blogsome.com/2006/08/24/e-learning-myth-2-technology-drives-educational-change/ There a number of claims, truisms or clichés that are frequently taken as self-evident in e-learning discussions, presentations, funding proposals and papers. These frequently find pointed expression in buzzwords and catchphrases like “net generation” (e.g. Barone, 2005), “knowledge economy” (e.g. Gandel, Katz, Metros, 2004) or fixed “laws” of technological change ... http://ipseity.blogsome.com/2006/08/14/e-learning-myths-introduction/ The Myth: Unlike any other generation before it, the Net Generation (born since 1982) is said to be marked by characteristics that correspond to the technologies they so readily adopt and so proficiently utilize. This technology is described as “personal, multifunctional, wireless, multimedia, [and] communication-centric;” corresponding net gen characteristics or ... http://ipseity.blogsome.com/2006/08/14/p36/ Understandings of learning and education are clearly culturally contingent. German-language research in these areas follows different historical and thematic dynamics than its English-language counterpart. Research in German appears more heterogeneous, and more explicitly philosophically- and historically- grounded. (See, for example, this attempt to map out this heterogeneity and ... http://ipseity.blogsome.com/2006/07/08/erkenntnisweisen-in-alltag-und-wissenschaft-ways-of-knowing-in-science-and-in-everday-life/