Metaphors of Ed Tech

In the first of several episodes celebrating 10 years of GO-GN (Global OER Graduate Network), I talk with Rob Farrow about his wokr on developing co-produced resources with the network and the visual imagery of penguins. Links: GO-GN Research Methods Handbook Conceptual Frameworks Guide Open Research Handbook Conceptualising Research Methodology for Doctoral Researchers in Open Education (with penguins)

I look at two metaphors, firstly how the non-conflict writing in Ted Lasso is a metaphor for a pedagogy of care, and secondly how shedworking and the Wilco album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot offer suggestions for creativity that goes beyond AI. Links: Ted Lasso Says Goodbye. It’s About Time. Good riddance, Ted Lasso: how the ‘nice’ comedy became utterly dreadful television The radical Ted Lasso lesson for education Pedagogy of Care – Caring for Teachers  7 Things You Should Know About a Domain of One’s Own

In this episode I look at how the development of a Canadian art identity offers some analogy to higher education coming to understand artificial intelligence. Links: The Emily Carr, Mattiusi Iyaituk & Tom Thomson approaches to AI Tom Thomson, Antimodernism, and the Ideal of Manhood Tom Thomson wikipedia Tom Thomson: Design for a Canadian Hero The Group of Seven wikipedia An Inquiry into the Success of Tom Thomson's The West Wind ‘Intruders,’ ‘animal roots’ and ‘Mother Earth’: tracking the art complex in the work of Emily Carr Emily Carr wikipedia Nuu-chah-nulth people wikipedia Haida people wikipedia Emily Carr Mattiusi Iyaituk video My blog Metaphor of ed tech book

In this episode I explore a number of music related metaphors, including edupunk, the educator as DJ and the pillars of hip-hop. Links: The Glass Bees (original Edupunk post) EDUPUNK or, on becoming a useful idiot. 25 years of edtech: 2008—EDUPUNK! Jargon watch: Green crude, popcorning, edupunk Diy U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education Open Educator as DJ Let’s Get Explicit Hip-Hop Culture

In this episode I examine the lecture from two perspectives. Firstly as the main model that people hold for higher education and how that limits our imagination when it comes to online learning. Secondly, the haunted house novel is used to explore the reasons for continuing with the lecture when students have stopped attending. Links: Why do education secretaries hate online learning? How to responsibly reopen colleges in the fall Is it live or is it internet? Experimental estimates of the effects of online instruction on student learning Rethinking university teaching: A conversational framework for the effective use of learning technologies. Twitter thread on empty lectures The Haunted Lecture Hall

In this episode I explore two metaphors that relate to open practice. The first are the 19th century riots in West Wales which focused on Toll Gates, and I make the connection to reactions to academic publishing with movements like ICanHazPDF and Sci-Hub. The second metaphor looks at anthropology and how the role of women in hunter gatherer societies was often overlooked by researchers. This is analogous to the types of activity in academic practice which might be overlooked in academic institutions. Links: Who’s downloading pirated papers? Everyone The Rebecca riots: A study in agrarian discontent Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science? “Big deal” publishing costs European universities over €1B a year Man the hunter, woman the gatherer? The impact of gender studies on hunter-gatherer research (a retrospective) The evolution of hunting Women the gatherer: Male bias in anthropology What hunters do for a living, or, how to make out on scarce resources Has Feminism Changed Archaeology? Women in evolution, part II: Subsistence and social organization among early hominids LTHEchat – The Story of a Community of Practice through Twitter Emotional labor in academia: The case of professors Pedagogy of care: COVID-19 edition Inferior: How science got women wrong and the new research that’s rewriting the story The Fallacy of Open Metaphors of Ed Tech book EdTechie blog

In this episode I explore two rather persistent, and often damaging, metaphors, namely that of Digital Natives and Uber (or other technology companies) for Education. Links: Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants Is It Age or IT: First Steps Toward Understanding the Net Generation The “digital natives” debate: A critical review of the evidence. The net generation and digital natives: Implications for higher education Self organising systems for mass computer literacy: Findings from the “hole in the wall” experiments Hope-in-the-Wall? A digital promise for free learning The Uberization of Education Wanted: Uber-Ized Education Unbundling and rebundling higher education in an age of inequality. World’s 1st blockchain university to begin teaching in 2019 Disgruntled drivers and “cultural challenges”: Uber admits to its biggest risk factors Uber’s nightmare has just begun Metaphors of Ed Tech book Edtechie.net 

I explore two metaphors relating to specific educational technologies. Firstly, the implementation of Video Assisted Refereeing in football and what it tells us about learning analytics in education is explored. Then the various metaphors relating to VLEs (or LMSs) are discussed. Links VLEs: A metaphorical history from sharks to limpets The inside story of how FIFA’s controversial VAR system was born The problems created by VAR are worse than those it was designed to solve Learning analytics: The emergence of a discipline Metaphors of Ed Tech Edtechie.net (my blog)

I look at two metaphors: The Welsh castle, Castell Coch, and what it tells us about venture capital investment in higher education; The rewilding approach to introducing apex predators and how we can think about our ed tech ecosystems. Links: Castell Coch Cardiff and the Marquesses of Bute Chartism in Wales Educating Silicon Valley: Corporate education reform and the reproduction of the techno-economic revolution My manifesto for rewilding the world. Wilding: The return of nature to a British farm. Reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone National Park: History, values, and ecosystem restoration SPLOT Metaphors of Ed Tech Edtechie.net (my blog)

I explore early metaphors of the Internet and how these shaped our thinking, but then how they have changed also over time. Links: Foucault in cyberspace: Surveillance, sovereignty, and hardwired censors.  What Gamergate should have taught us about the 'alt-right' Since when is it illegal to just mention a trademark online? (Streisand Effect) SIFT - The Four Moves The Outrage Economy Metaphors of Ed Tech Edtechie.net (my blog)

I briefly set out the reasoning behind using metaphors to talk about educational technology, and then how metaphors work and shape our thinking. Links: Metaphors of Ed Tech Metaphors We Live By Why Metaphors Matter in Education When a bad metaphor may not be a victimless crime: The role of metaphor in social policy On Two Metaphors for Learning and the Dangers of Choosing Just One Edtechie.net (my blog) .

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Maren and I discuss our upcoming OER24 presentation on the subject of podcasting and internet radio Our slides for the talk OER24 programme

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