This course is fabulously designed and provides critical perspectives to Education and Education philosophy and theory. Its major component is Technology and the way in which the radically changing technologies could be harnessed for Education.
It has provided with onhands learning of technologies such as podcasts, wikis and google search.
The entire thrust of the programme is towards the Emancipatory value embedded in Educational Theory and this is taken to full length.
It is one course which could provide Critical ideas - for the use of technologies in the Library and for those who do Cultural Informatics and Information Architecture and Design to be enriched through cultural theory and criticism.
It definitely bears great scope.
Monday, May 4, 2009
You Tube !
As instrumental technology my assessment of the medium gives it some positive value. It does certainly involve sharing both the output and congeniality between users. It has the scope of developing into a proper film making medium.
However, it has structural flows which is not a plus and its search possibilities are not enhanced to whatever causes.
The Internet being a private space and not being provided by the Government as a Public Forum status means that issues of copyright do work against the users.
For making social and political documentaries or films, it needs to be investing into proper equipment which would allow the cinematic justification.
However, it has structural flows which is not a plus and its search possibilities are not enhanced to whatever causes.
The Internet being a private space and not being provided by the Government as a Public Forum status means that issues of copyright do work against the users.
For making social and political documentaries or films, it needs to be investing into proper equipment which would allow the cinematic justification.
Podcasts as Instructional Technology
Some how I found the idea of podcast and being able to have RSS feeds to one's created piece resonates powerfully as a medium of Instruction. Perhaps it has to do with the auditory rather than visual aspect of the outcome, more akin to a radio.
Alas, it too needs some investment - some good gadgets which would provide high quality sound and end product.
However, for educational training and providing such programmes which could be employed over the Internet, it is definitely one of the powerful pieces of technology.
One could envisage rich socio-historical documentation which embrace marginalised racial, gender and individual voices to provide them a platform to reflect the plight of the human condition.
Or a lighter use for artistic creations as well or for lighter drama and events.
Rather than the end, it is the means to do things which is quite powerful.
Alas, it too needs some investment - some good gadgets which would provide high quality sound and end product.
However, for educational training and providing such programmes which could be employed over the Internet, it is definitely one of the powerful pieces of technology.
One could envisage rich socio-historical documentation which embrace marginalised racial, gender and individual voices to provide them a platform to reflect the plight of the human condition.
Or a lighter use for artistic creations as well or for lighter drama and events.
Rather than the end, it is the means to do things which is quite powerful.
Instructional Technologies & Democracy
Instructional Technologies seem to provide means for realisation of democracy. However, the factors of commodification of culture and corporatisation of technology itself are an anethema to this realisation.
The measure of the success of the utility of culture and technology is largely correlated to individuals being able to buy these means. It also depends upon the factor of the Internet - which is largely a corporate entity in which individual groups struggle to create a commons. Unless the Government accords the Internet some specific status such as a Public Forum through its judicial process, the Internet remains to a great degree a huge private enterprise.
The question of democracy vis a vis Instructional technologies is tenuous.
The measure of the success of the utility of culture and technology is largely correlated to individuals being able to buy these means. It also depends upon the factor of the Internet - which is largely a corporate entity in which individual groups struggle to create a commons. Unless the Government accords the Internet some specific status such as a Public Forum through its judicial process, the Internet remains to a great degree a huge private enterprise.
The question of democracy vis a vis Instructional technologies is tenuous.
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