edit: Joseph Gordon-Levitt is in Mysterious Skin So a trailer for a movie I’ve been looking forward to for a while came out the other day. The movie’s called White Bird in a Blizzard, and I’m pretty excited for a number of reasons. Firstly, it’s a pretty neat trailer and the premise is super intriguing. … [Read more…]
Jane found a surprising amount of enjoyment in the reading, as she was ‘shocked’ by the accuracy of some of Nelson’s predictions, including the changes in structure of education through computers and other devices. On the Nelson reading, Gemma makes what I feel is a relevant connection to a Goosebumps Choose Your Own Adventure book, … [Read more…]
The reading As We May Think was written by Dr Vannevar Bush in July, 1945, when the Second World War was coming to a close. A short introduction from the editor makes several points, a strong one being that the inventions of Bush’s time had acted as a way to extend physical power, but not … [Read more…]
This weeks symposium was a definite improvement on last weeks, as there was far greater discussion and great pints made by both the tutors and several students. Unlike last week’s copyright centred questions, this week’s questions really benefitted from the symposium structure – even if it sometimes felt that Adrian had a definite idea of … [Read more…]
So rather than buy new books to write in for uni, I just make use of some of my old books from school for subjects that only saw me using a couple of pages. I went to a Catholic school, so one of these subjects was obviously RE, which rarely involved a great deal of … [Read more…]
This week’s symposium (and it was a symposium) consisted of discussion on copyright, and basically what we can get away with. I felt that this symposium was just alright, but at times it felt as though it could have simply been a lecture, as there didn’t really seem to be a great amount of opinionated … [Read more…]
Miles, Adrian. “Network Literacy: The New Path to Knowledge.” Screen Education Autumn.45 (2007): 24-30. Adrian Miles’ reading attempts to explain what network literacy is exactly. He does this by first going through print literacy, using Penny borrowing a book from a library as an example. The things that are described in this example, such as … [Read more…]