Hyperbole and Bad Faith
Each new week brings with it the publication of yet another book telling us how technological developments will damage, or are already damaging, humankind. We a...
Category: Social Technology
Scottish Open Education Declaration
Open education can promote knowledge transfer while at the same time enhancing quality and sustainability, supporting social inclusion, and creating a culture o...
Technologies of Imagination and Learning
Anne Balsamo, in her impressive work Designing Culture: the technological imagination at work, follows Bruno Latour‘s earlier use of the phrase Technologi...
The Penny University
The coffeehouse was a place for like-minded scholars to congregate, to read, as well as to learn from and to debate with each other, but it was emphatically not...
Knowable Networked Communities
Raymond Williams, in The Country and the City, pondered the change in attitudes in English society, as portrayed in the literature of that country produced betw...
Technological Determinism and the Key to the Gates
Howard Gardner, speaking in a video on the DML Central site: I don’t believe for a moment in technological determinism. I believe any technology can be used ben...