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Object Oriented Ontology and the Withdrawn Being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.…

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Object Oriented Ontology and the Withdrawn Being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.…

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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.

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Glow Blogs and Video

A few days ago @GlowScot pointed me to this tweet:

After a few exchanges I ended up with:

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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.…

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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.…

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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.’”

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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.…

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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.…

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syndicating 5358 posts from 517 #etmooc blogs