As a way of understanding actor-network theory (ANT), I’m reading into object oriented ontology (OOO), starting with Levi Bryant’s The Democracy of Objects, which I think will help me explain why ANT tends to place both human and non-human objects on an equal ontological basis.…
Object Oriented Ontology and the Withdrawn Being
As a way of understanding actor-network theory (ANT), I’m reading into object oriented ontology (OOO), starting with Levi Bryant’s The Democracy of Objects, which I think will help me explain why ANT tends to place both human and non-human objects on an equal ontological basis.…
Quality Matters Monday: Standard 5.4
It’s Quality Matters Monday! Each Monday, we highlight a Quality Matters standard and review its importance in an online course and how we evaluate this
standard.
Today, we are reviewing Quality Matters Standards 5.4.
General Standard 5 addresses course activities and learner interaction to meet the learning objective goals.
Glow Blogs and Video
A few days ago @GlowScot pointed me to this tweet:
Wondering best way to have videos in a @GlowScot WordPress Blog? Can I upload to Sharepoint and embed? Don't really want to use YouTube. Ta!
— Karl Barrs (@KarlBarrs) September 22, 2015
After a few exchanges I ended up with:
@KarlBarrs @BKPrimary @dgilmour @GlowScot can increase by request.
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Chris van der Kuyl on Mobile phones #SLF
A minute from: Raising the Digital Generation in Scotland – Chris van der Kuyl, Entrepreneur and Chairman of 4J Studios at the Scottish Learning Festival
…that is mental, that is absolutely mental that is like saying you cant carry a note book in school they are banned because you could write really seditious and crazy remarks in that notebook… … to ban it is close to Luddism…
I’m catching up with this keynote from the Scottish Learning festival, here: SLF highlights – SLF 2015 1.…
Glow Blogs at Scottish Learning Festival
I’ve spent the last couple of days talking about Glow and Glow Blogs in particular at the Scottish Learning Festival.
Today I was co-presenting at a seminar on Blogs with Mrs Andrea Hunter and three of her pupils from Whinhill Primary.…
#TMSLF15 links and tweets
We had a good night at TeachMeet SLF 15
Here is some of the twitter stream: TMSLF15 (with images, tweets) Storify I tried to cut out re-tweets and duplication (but didn’t spend too much time on that).
The image view on twitter is nice: #tmslf15 hashtag on Twitter.…
The Fight Against Forgetting Part 4: The Eye of Conceptual Understanding
“The rivalry between the two philosophies is suggested by the anecdote that Antisthenes said to Plato: ‘I see a horse, but I don’t see horseness,’ to which
Plato replied: ‘No, for you have the eye with which a horse is seen, but you have not yet acquired the eye to see horseness.’”
Rhizo, ANT, and Object Oriented Ontology
In my research with the Rhizo swarm, I have read enough actor-network theory to know that ANT practitioners give nonhuman actors equal status to human actors, flattening the field of reality and removing humans from their position of privilege. But I wasn’t sure why ANT did that and on what basis it rendered reality flat.…
Rhizo, ANT, and Object Oriented Ontology
In my research with the Rhizo swarm, I have read enough actor-network theory to know that ANT practitioners give nonhuman actors equal status to human actors, flattening the field of reality and removing humans from their position of privilege. But I wasn’t sure why ANT did that and on what basis it rendered reality flat.…