Pre-COVID the role of technology in learning and teaching in higher education was important. However, in 2020 it became core as part of the COVID response. Given the circumstances it is no surprise that chunks of that response were not that great. There was some good work. There was a lot of a "good enough for the situation" work. There was quite a bit that really sucked. For example,...more...
In the absence of an established workflow for curating thoughts and resources I am using this blog post to save links to some resources. It's also being used as an initial attempt to write down some thoughts on these resources and beyond. All very rough....more...
"Proteus" (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) by skooksie...more...
Way back in 1986 I started studying undergraduate computer science at the University of Queensland. One of our first year programming assignments was to use the fancy, new Macintosh computers to add some code to a game. I'm looking for pointers to the name of the game and any online resources about it. A working version on some contemporary platform would be great....more...
@damoclarky has commented on yesterday's Part 2 post. A comment that's sparked a bit of thinking. I've moved my length response into this post, rather than as a reply to the comment....more...
This is a followup to yesterday's Part 1 post and a continuation of an attempt to describe the nature of digital technology and to think about what this might reveal about how and what is being done by formal education has it attempts to use digital technology for learning and teaching. This post moves from the fundamental properties of digital technologies (yesterday's focus) to what some suggest is that nature of digital technologies....more...
Formal education in most of its forms is still struggling to effectively harness digital technology to enhance and transform learning and teaching. Even with a history for 40+ years of various attempts. The reasons for this are numerous and diverse. The following is an attempt to look at one of the reasons. A reason, at least to me, which seems to have be somewhat ignored....more...
Slides and abstract for the presentation can be found below....more...