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Agreed. This thread took such an early drift left side…which sparked my interest.
I can’t disagree about the white men, but what I was saying – cryptically perhaps – was that Warhol’s comment was a throwaway line, whereas McLuhan’s point was the result of years of analysis of mass communication. I’m no fan of McLuhan, but it maybe that it’s only now that we are seeing some of the most troubling examples of his point – e.g. the damaging effects of social media platforms – not only on individuals but on our whole social fabric. I’m sure that people who signed up for Facebook when it first started weren’t thinking about algorithms.
Over to the experts…
Best
John
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Subject: Re: IDEAS??? Encouraging staff and students to engage with LTOh yes, John, thank you - I’m sure you are right about the quote. Sorry hard to tell the difference between all those white men sometimes....:)
Can we get back to Jayne’s point and help her with her original question? There are some great examples of ways to engage faculty and students with or without tech for those who want to. I’m sure many on this list will have ideas to share
Celia
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Subject: Re: IDEAS??? Encouraging staff and students to engage with LTI haven’t read McLuhan since I was an undergraduate…
I want to agree that a painting, drawing, photo, can all convey the message, BUT we would miss something if we didn’t consider the full effects of the changing medium each time. I think that was McLuhan’s point.
Wasn’t it Andy Warhol who said `famous for 15 minutes’? I think he said `in the future…’. Which reminds of the person who said that if the expansion of Elvis Presley impersonators continues at the same rate, then by 2025 everyone will be an Elvis impersonator…
Uh Huh Huh
John
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Sent: 13 February 2020 21:44
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Subject: Re: IDEAS??? Encouraging staff and students to engage with LTTo take up your question John. You may not be able to take a photo without a camera but you can draw a picture. A photo might give a more accurate representation but you wouldn’t know that if you hadn’t seen a camera or have access to one
I did say I don’t disagree about the negative of using tech for tech’s sake, I am arguing that what Jayne suggests could be helpful for the teachers and students at her institution
As for Marshall McLuhan didn’t he also say we all want our15 mins of fame? Not all statements should be treated as absolute truths!
Regarding preparing people for work, David - I think I’d be hard pressed to find an industry that doesn’t communicate at all using technology.
Celia
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Subject: Re: IDEAS??? Encouraging staff and students to engage with LTMarshall McLuhan famously said that the medium is the message. I always wanted to disagree with that because the message is the message; surely?
But I have to concede that sometimes the message only exists because of a certain medium – after all, you can’t take a photo without a camera; can you? And that’s what McLuhan partly meant; wasn’t it?
But – for a lot of the time – a medium just facilitates a message – which could be delivered in multiple (and often more effective) ways; doesn’t it?
But McLuhan would surely counter that if a message IS communicated through a certain medium - a technology – we take our eye off the ball if we just focus on the effects of the message, because the medium always has its own distinct - often unintended - effects as well; doesn’t it?
So, I think I want to agree with both Celia and David on this.
I don’t feel very qualified to talk about learning technology, only to say that when people talk about LT today, I think they mostly mean `digital’ LT. After all, a pencil is a piece of learning technology; isn’t it?
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John
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Subject: Re: IDEAS??? Encouraging staff and students to engage with LTHi Celia
Well, the logic stands up, I would suggest with a degree of frivolity; the discussion started about technology, and if there hadn't been technology there would have been no need to have this discussion. There is technology, of course, and what I seek more than anything else here is that we do not suborn what is a social process (pedagogy, the communication of learning and meaning or however we wish to define it) to a technological determinism or hegemony.
As per this discussion, technology may facilitate our conversation when we are not side-by-side but not direct what we talk about, wherever we are, in my view 🙂
Best wishes
David
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Subject: RE: IDEAS??? Encouraging staff and students to engage with LTTruly? I can’t agree with you on that
I enjoy the many conversations that take place on this list, I don’t respond to all of them, but I do read them
We don’t limit our discussions to issues around technology
Celia
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Without technology, we wouldn't be needing it 🙂
Best wishes
David
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Subject: RE: IDEAS??? Encouraging staff and students to engage with LT
Well we wouldn’t be having this conversation without technology, would we?
Celia
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Hi all
I think that's fair enough, as it long as it facilitates, rather than directs, the learning and teaching process. I don't feel comfortable at all privileging technology because it's A/there and B/in vogue. In the case Celia identifies, supposing we encouraged them to actually talk directly with each other, using something else that is there already but isn't technology - something which builds trust and allows human-to-human interfacing without technology (eg, non-violent communication approaches)? Crafting safe spaces, building paths that allow interaction beyond judgement etc.
I'm never really sure that technology can provide truly social solutions. And if we are preparing them for a workforce as well as trying to educate them in a discipline, we might do well to equip them with social tools for a social world, instead of encouraging them to retain that remote 'connection' to their peers. They have to be challenged to become people who can interact with other people, as people. Sometimes I think that encouraging them to talk to one another digitally does not do them any service.
I'm a fine one to talk. Most of my communication these days is done via Facebook...
Best wishes
David
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I don’t disagree with the sentiment, but I do think there is a case for showcasing what is possible using technology.
After all, we don’t always know what we don’t know
So for example, if we didn’t know it was possible to get students to talk to each other using the VLE we wouldn’t ask them to do so, even if we might like to encourage greater student interaction.
The assumption here seems to be that there will be someone on hand to say, yes great idea to do X, did you know you can use technology to help with that? Not all universities are able to offer that level of support, and even if they do not all faculty avail themselves of one on one assistance
Celia
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Re Tomkinson email
Thanks for this contribution. I've for years had an uneasy feeling about being pushed into any given medium, especially IT-orientated, instead of the material. It's felt like the cart pulling the horse or the tail wagging the dog. It does seem to me that the material we want to convey should direct the means with which we convey it, and that consideration should come in that order. Technology can successfully be a tool of this social process, but it should not be the structure that determines the nature of that process.
Best to all, as ever 🙂
Dr. David Roberts,
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Loughborough University (Room BE141)
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Why?
Getting staff and students to engage with learning technology is a non-starter. Try starting with what you want them to learn and then evaluate the ways in which this could be achieved, rather than sarting with the medium. I do not go to a bus station and jump on the first bus that comes along - I plan where I want to go and then the most appopriate means of getting there, which may or may not be by bus.
Forcing people to use an approach that they do not see as necessary or desirable is a sure way to build resistance!
Sincerely
Bland
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lots of interesting questions. Just tackling one aspect here:
Technology is moving fast. We are all used to the immediacy of WhatsApp, Twitter etc. Our VLE, Aula, mimics this and I like this immediacy, with a central feed just like common social media. We have had a 150% increase in VLE use since we switched from Moodle.
When we used Moodle, my reservation was that unless I set up a particular discussion forum, students were not able to simply ask each other questions in a free space. I found it too teacher centred, because students could not initiate conversations themselves, they could only comment in pre-set fora. However, I am told that Moodle can indeed be set up with that functionality. But I do not know how.
In my case, participation in online discussions through the VLE is a requirement on PGCert, and I ensure we use it in class, to post, discuss posts etc. I have many examples of student-generated content which have enriched the course. It is not a s simple repository of materials, but a living part of the course. We have blended mode delivery: one week face-to-face, one week VLE activities. Yes, I need to invest time to set it up and plan how to integrate it in each phase of learning, but it pays off and I think it supports learning very well.
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Virna
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Dear Colleagues,
I am looking for ideas and suggestions for encouraging staff and students to become more active on our VLE and with learning technology of all kinds. RBC is a small specialist HE college focussing on theatre and performance. While some programmes make good use of learning technologies others steer clear claiming that it is all too complicated.
We use Moodle which many claim is 'clunky' but at present I am sure we are not making full use of it. My first aim is to try to bring resources together and to make them more 'user-friendly'. I am creating very simple guides for beginners, sketches of how the resources might support each programme, and ideas of ways we can bring in other useful platforms, link directly to mobile resources and so on.....
I am looking for ideas and suggestions on
- what to include
- what to leave out
- how to organise things to encourage use
- ideas of how I can ensure the resources best serve our work and that of our students.
If you have any ideas at all, and, in particular, any useful resources you want to share, suggestions on why students/staff find the VLE challenging, please let me know.
With many thanks.
All good wishes,
Jayne
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