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Twitter hashtag activism - a critique
http://www.digitalcounterrevolution.co.uk/2015/twitter-hashtag-activism-a-critique
Skip to Primary Content. The digital revolution and edtech - going beyond the hype. Twitter: a gravedigger of the. Writing long before our revolutionary era, Simone Weil looked at how Marx’s supposed gravediggers (the factories) were operating and suggested that the gravegigger hypothesis would never be borne out: Servitude cannot cultivate the spirit of freedom that a genuine revolution requires (. Has the regime finally given rise to its own gravedigger? A fake crocodile can be experienced up close in ...
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Sugata Mitra / Negroponte: Knowing is obsolete - a critical response
http://www.digitalcounterrevolution.co.uk/2013/sugata-mitra-knowing-is-obsolete
Skip to Primary Content. The digital revolution and edtech - going beyond the hype. Sugata Mitra: “Knowing is obsolete.” Is it? Another myth is the idea that knowing is now becoming obsolete. In his February 2013 TED talk he said this:. Could it be that we won’t need to go to school at all? Could it be that, at the point in time when you need to know something, you can find it out in two minutes? Knowledge and the self. As a thought experiment, let’s imagine going for a walk in the hills. Sugata Mitr...
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Ken Robinson, the Element & the Iron Cage
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Skip to Primary Content. The digital revolution and edtech - going beyond the hype. Ken Robinson, the Element and the Iron Cage. With a string of stories of talented people who found success doing the things they love) and the practical advice (in. Max Weber studied the world of work as it had developed in the West under the influence of the Protestant work ethic (see. The Protestant Work Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. Learning to love the Iron Cage. The post-Protestant view of work. Although Ken Ro...
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The child as empty vessel - emptiness and liberation pedagogy
http://www.digitalcounterrevolution.co.uk/2014/child-empty-vessel-education
Skip to Primary Content. The digital revolution and edtech - going beyond the hype. The child as an empty vessel: a defence of emptiness in education. One tweet-length piece of evidence. Education-as-usual assumes that kids are empty vessels who need to be sat down in a room and filled with curricular content. Dr. Mitra’s experiments prove that wrong. What we want to do here is not just set the record straight about the child as an empty vessel, but we also want to suggest that the time has come to take ...
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Sir Ken Robinson and the Luddites on industry and factory-model schools
http://www.digitalcounterrevolution.co.uk/2014/sir-ken-robinson-luddites
Skip to Primary Content. The digital revolution and edtech - going beyond the hype. Is Sir Ken Robinson a Luddite? To answer that, we need to clarify the essence of Luddism the most forward-looking aspect of what they were fighting for back in 1811* . Here we are interested in what makes the Luddites more than just another group fighting for survival in a situation where people are starving. The idea of a True Society, as a supposedly timeless ideal that the here and now must match up to, could also be c...
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Sugata Mitra's moral message - a Nietzchean critique
http://www.digitalcounterrevolution.co.uk/2014/sugata-mitra-edtech-morality-nietzsche
Skip to Primary Content. The digital revolution and edtech - going beyond the hype. Sugata Mitra and the Last Teachers. The anti-teacher teachers, with all their aparent moral minimalism, say a very maximal “Yes” to that wall of indifference. The hideous type described by Nietzsche is now seen to be the dominant type in online pedagogy – a type that therefore could be called the Last Teacher. Caspar David Friedrich –. Wanderer above the Mist. Duane Hanson –. Couple with Shopping Bags. X2190; older posts.
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Holiday website and business website design portfolio from Handcrafted Websites
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Web design for business and holiday property websites in the UK and Europe. Below is a sample of our work, illustrating the range of web design projects we have undertaken so far. Although the majority of our work is with holiday accommodation providers (both individual property owners and agencies), we are willing and able to build websites for many other types of businesses in the UK and abroad. Picture Perfect Holidays,. A responsive template-based website. Moor Grange Farm,. Shadoxhurst, Ashford, Kent.
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Holiday cottage & villa website templates
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Web design for business and holiday property websites in the UK and Europe. Templates for Business and Holiday Websites. To benefit from our low-price website design offer. Choose from our range of business website templates/themes shown here. Although the designs have been set up with materials relating to holiday properties, the same designs can be adapted to a wide range of businesses. If you want something different, contact us. A responsive design is a mobile-friendly one that adapts automatically t...