Week5 – A6 – The way ideas are produced and spread using social networks

Wesch’s idea was to define Web 2.0. Through his video, The Machine is Us/ing Us, he’s trying to explain how differently from the original web, normal users are the producers in web 2.0 (example YouTube). This is a new type of platform where the normal user becomes the new star; ‘the cyber star’. Comparing the […]

Week5 – A5 – Comparing ways of finding out about Web 2.0

As argued by Salomon in his paper , through the use of different media the user might give a different interpretation of the information being viewed. In their work, O’Reilly and Wesch are delivering a similar message is being delivered but due to the different medium being used. Initially, I didn’t see this similarity. The message in […]

Week5 – A4 – The Machine is Us/ing Us

The video is very interesting as it immedietly makes the viewer aware of the differences between written and electronic text. Then it goes on explaining the evolution of the web from static text to today’s dynamic & interactive web. Whilst viewing this video I beganreflecting on the added value I’m gaining through the use of my blog for the H800 […]

Week 5 – A3 – The current wave of technology – Web 2.0

1. What is Web 2.0 ? Through his discussion on the evolvment of RSS, Google, Wikipedia, blogs etc. O’Reilly visualises Web2.0 as a platform where the user can have control on the data being viewed. In fact I am really enthusiastic about my recent Bloglines subscription. Moreover in Web 2.0 collective users participate in creating a ‘collective intelligence’, So these online services […]

Week5 – A2 – What is new about new technology?

McLuhan’s discussion of participation isn’t exactly convincing. He mentions the idea of having the audience act as the producer but at the same his idea of participation is linked to the use of different media to ‘view’ the same action. I don’t know if I am getting this correctly but here McLuhan is focusing on […]

Week5 – A1 – Forms of representation

OF MIND AND MEDIA Text is available all the time, detail is written down. Through the different education stages I passed through, there was a great emphasis on the use of books for studying and of paper to jot down notes. Even later, when doing my Cisco certifications, although all the material was available online , […]

Week 4 – A3 – Synchronous tutorial

As already refered to for other Elluminate sessions, its very interesting to notice the different type of participants involved in the discussion. V actively involved through speech, actively involved through texting, observants etc. 1. What makes an activity ‘authentic’? In the paper by Brown et al, authentic activity is defined as ‘the ordinary […]

Week4 – A4 – Engestrom

Expansive Learning at Work: toward an activity theoretical reconceptualization 1. What kind of theory of learning is offered by classic activity theory “Activity theory theorizes that when individuals engage and interact with their environment, production of tools results. These tools are “exteriorized” forms of mental processes, and as these mental processes are manifested in tools, […]

Week4 – A2 – Brown et al

Situated Cognition and the culture of learning The authors explain why activity and situations are integral to cognition and learning and how different ideas of what is appropriate learning activity produce very different results. Situated Knowledge and Learning: Learning from the situation rather than an out of context environment (which can easily be provided in […]

Week4_A1_Defining Learning

An individual being in a group or on his own acquires some type of knowledge which changes him as a person. This acquisition can be done in various ways such as a formal classroom setting or the environment in which the person is living. In my definition I have left out the idea of […]