CMC!: 2013

25 de fevereiro de 2013

Joana Loff 2013 EDCMOOC Digital Artefact

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mMOT0ekXHo&feature=youtu.be

19 de fevereiro de 2013

13 de fevereiro de 2013

Learning and games... I prefer a dream than a game

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNfPdaKYOPI&feature=youtu.be

Learning cannot always be a game ... Learning can be a great mental effort incompatible with games ... But ... Sometimes learning happens in dreams while sleeping (a dream seems like a real interactive game…).

Our free brain (sleep) is faster than our conscious brain (awake). Our brain reaches conclusions while we sleep, because while we are awake and aware, it seems that we do not have the courage (not dare) ... Courage to take that quantum leap ... This feeling is better than a real game!

But we can find a compromise between games (entertainment) and learning (serious). There may be a dialectic between life, learning and play ... We can relate the learning content and functioning of a game: A game that is attractive must have achievable goals, prizes (level up), etc.. Students would feel more engaged and motivated they felt that learning was processed in the same way. Throughout life we getting more information and knowledge, through everything that surrounds us, and the LIFE, EDUCATION can be seen as a GAME we playing real-time all days of our lifes...

Campbell communication - Gardner Campbell Keynote - Ecologies of Yearning

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=kIzA4ItynYw

The Campbell communication was really great! All the questions of "opening education" were highlighted and discussed in a very sensitive way. Learning and teaching is not a simple process... Transform the excess of information around us in useful knowledge is difficult enterprise...

We have to be open minded to be successful with the opening education, we have to be poetic, philosophic, holistic... almost go on a metaphysic journey - "Open learning is a journey of exploration"...

Makes me remember Álvaro de Campos (Fernando Pessoa heterony):

"Sentir tudo de todas as maneiras,

Viver tudo de todos os lados,

Ser a mesma coisa de todos os modos possíveis ao mesmo tempo,

Realizar em si toda a humanidade de todos os momentos

Num só momento difuso, profuso, completo e longínquo."

“To feel everything in every way

To live everything from every side

To be the same thing every way possible at the same time,

To realize within oneself all of humanity from every moment

In a single diffused, profuse, complete and far away moment."

In these ads the space and the people look perfect. Everything is orderly, clean, everything seems easy and just a tap away. But people seem lonely ... Or between them there is always technology (communication is always mediated ...)! It seems that nothing can ever be the natural way ... But people seem happy or are not aware of their unhappiness.

Perfection is an utopia, but too much perfection here, seems like dystopia ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZkHpNnXLB0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6cNdhOKwi0

Yes, I believe that technological determinism is convincing. Technology has always influenced and influences the society, the culture, the way we do, how we think, how we learn and teach, from the Stone Age to the present and also the future. But there are always those who can keep up and those who for various reasons are and will be excluded from information and technology. So we have to prepare to the future ...

Music can be Utopian or Dystopian... Music can transport us to other states of mind and superior feelings (good ones or bad ones...) What do you think?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcyuKUtgyZ8

This one talks about Love, Technologies, and ... With a lot of symbologies...

What do you think?

communication through music with ETs! Universal language??

Utopian: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYCBgSRNjk0 :-)

Dystopian: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MhgnMX73Pw :D

The technologies improve cognitive function, organize thinking, enhance intellectual economy or ecology. Moreover, the technologies can function as our external memories ... That's what we want for education? Are we losing some of the internal mechanisms of memorization? What are the consequences? If we have a large amount of data and information stored externally in technological devices, which means we will be better prepared to learn in a more creative and imaginative way?

The technologies give rise to a new educational paradigm, in which predominates the multimedia. There is no doubt that the technologies influence the culture, news perspectives and ways of thinking, representing a gain in education, because they promote learning more practical and dynamic. Through new media, interaction is promoted, diversity is fostered , tolerance and sharing of knowledge through discussion and involvement of all in the process of knowledge construction is encouraged.