
Tag: self
Technology=Idiots?

Digitally Driven Cultural Evolution
In the 19th-century, the Ludittes famously objected to steam-powered manufacturing, the technology of the day: they made their feelings clear by breaking mill machines. Of late I have started to think of this as representative of something that every generation goes through at some point …
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Me vs Me
Thanks to Bbpics on Wikimedia Commons for the image of the model.
Normal, Old & Fat
Face transformation software is a great way to get students thinking about how they will change during their lives, and what that might look and feel like. I use the above image as a stimulus to get my students to laugh at me: I find …
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High Tech Stuff Visualisation
High Tech Stuff
I just put the finishing touches on a new ICT unit looking into the past, present and future of ICT, and how technology made us the species we are today. My aim is to get students away from the idea that high-tech is the only …
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Networked Society ‘On the Brink’
Magazine Cover Analysis
I created this simple worksheet the other day, and it seemed to really get my ICT & Media students thinking about the issue of how they respond to media, and in particular, how magazine covers are designed to manipulate our thoughts and emotions in order …
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Songs As Poetry
And so I sent some men to fight, and one came back at dead of night. Said he'd seen my enemy. Said he looked just like me,