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Study notes: Knox (Critical Education and Digital Cultures)

• rich and social phenomena – countering more established views that virtual communities lack intensity and depth compared to face-to-face communication.
• Online discussion groups can be a place for dialogue, sharing, exchange and kinship practices –> online is warm, friendly and communal.
• this stance often treats technology as instrument; a passive device that seves the aims of its users, and simply facilitates the enhancement of an exclusively human drive for social interactions.

• increasing emphasis on user-generated content and interactivity found on the web.
• more mainstream use of the internet
• technologies framed in more productive and beneficial terms, as services which enhance and support conventional social life

• recent trend that focuses on the student instead of the teacher –> learning as a social construction of knowledge
• educational institutions were adopting more digital and networked technologies.
• technology provides the means for dialogue and communication.

• changing perspectives in ‘networked learning’ -> signalling instrumentalism of technology and reorganisation of education around the learning of the individual.

• naturalisation of ‘social learning’ and a concealment of technology
• connectivism frames the processes of learning as quite literally those of the network
• the value of a digital cultures perspective is to reveal broader influences, assumptions and trajectories bound up in a drive for participation and networked e-learning communities.
• centering of community in education positions web technology as the passive instrument of our predetermined educational aims.
• overlooks powerful economic and ideological forces that underpin and shape technology industry.
• motivated by data acquisition and profit.

February 26, 2020 at 11:26AM
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