#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
I spoke earlier today at the 26th UK Heads of e-Learning Forum meeting about Effectively navigating the cloud: The impact of externally hosted learning spaces. My presentation on the University and the Cloud: a health-warning is on my slideshare. There…
Last week’s CERD conference on doing and undoing academic labour got me thinking about whether anything, once done, could be undone. Or whether, once our labour had transformed some thing or some place or some outlook or some one, there…
I’m presenting at the University of Lincoln’s Centre for Educational Research and Development conference on Thursday June 7. I’ll be speaking about Educational technology and the war on public education. My slides are on my slideshare. There is a fuller…
In their review of militarism and education normal, Meiners and Quinn argue that there is a three-fold mechanism by which public education in the United States is shaped through hegemonic militarisation: by offering a perception of choice to those denied…
I have argued elsewhere about the resources for a critique of mobile learning and its relationship to notions of capital and what Hardt and Negri have termed Empire. I have just submitted a draft book chapter on this issue, in…
On Tuesday I am presenting at the University of Brighton’s Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics, at their conference, ‘The Problem of “Dirty Hands” in UK Universities‘. I’ll be developing some ideas around the theme of educational technology and the…
In her latest post on the digital university, which focuses upon information literacy, Sheila MacNeill argues that “technological change in the production and consumption of information content” should “not allowed to obscure the importance of developing the educational, ethical and…
I’m presenting two linked papers on higher education/the assault on public education in the UK. I’ll blog what I plan to say here, and link to my slideshare. The first presentation is at Brighton’s Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics,…
I The threat of the increasing proletarianisation of our lives under austerity politics is increasingly invoked and folded into the debate over how we structure our social relations. Proletarianisation is an outcome of the materialist nature of our productive relations…
I’ve written about mobiles before, and you can read that stuff here. I’ve written about tech-determinism before, in particular in a post here. The issues I am trying to reflect on are part of a critique of technology inside capitalist…