The following are some tweets from the SRHE’s Digital University conference on “The digital and the material: mapping contemporary student practices” on 28th March 2014. Tweets are related to my session and other sessions by David White, Donna Lanclos, Lesley Gourlay, and Martin Oliver. Some thought provoking themes […]
I am pleased to have a new paper published in a special issue of the Research in Learning Technology journal. I reflected on my process for collaboratively writing this paper in an earlier post, and how my co-writer and I worked on it using cloud-based technologies over a […]
Just another wee reflection: Plato in his Phaedrus talks about the ‘fysikEs arthrOsis’ or ‘natural joints’ of entities and phenomena. He suggests that thinking about phenomena is like slaughtering an animal: that judicious knowledge of ‘joints’ and connections is imperative, and taken-for-granted, arbitrary, and organisational notions of connections […]
Digital technologies are a significant presence in society and in educational settings. They are a given mainstay and influence the way literacy is composed, taught, and, to some extent, assessed. When such new demands are made on language then we are, in the words of Michael Halliday (1989: […]
In educational research it is important to explicate the relationship between digital technologies, their environments, and human behaviour (whether this be literacy practices, pedagogies, etc.). Since we are set to face an ever more digitised future with the growing popularisation of ebooks, augmented reality, game-based learning, and gesture-based […]
If we take the view that the tools we use for certain actions do not simply facilitate them, but they ultimately transform them in a mutually constitutive way, then the study of one (actor) necessitates the study of the other (actor). As such, an approach known as Actor […]
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