{"id":457,"date":"2012-03-17T20:59:19","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T20:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edublog.me\/shapingmedia\/?p=457"},"modified":"2012-03-17T21:24:54","modified_gmt":"2012-03-17T21:24:54","slug":"mar-17th-a-society-in-educational-turmoil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edublog.me\/shapingmedia\/2012\/03\/17\/mar-17th-a-society-in-educational-turmoil\/","title":{"rendered":"Mar 17th: A Society in (Educational) Turmoil"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maybe you already know the videos by Fisch & McLeod<\/a> or by RSA Animate on Ken Robinson<\/a>; they are both also prime examples for different visualisation techniques for different content.<\/p>\n

It seems that something has changed, that something needs to be changed.
\nWhat?<\/p>\n

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Torsten Meyer on medium, media, culture and technology:<\/p>\n

“(…) the way of understanding \u00bbmedia\u00ab and \u00bbmedium\u00ab which is used here is more comprehensive and at the same time more abstract. It is not a scientifically clean, for example media-theoretically clear term but rather an attempt (…) at grasping also in the sense of sociology and cultural theory: \u00bbnew medium\u00ab \u2013 singular \u2013 must be understood (at least) by a double meaning. On the one hand, \u00bbmedium\u00ab must be interpreted in a very abstract, system-theoretical way as a set of conditions of cognitive, communicative, and social processing, as a system of the points of reference of the reflexivity of social ways of acting which have been achieved due to communicative experience \u2013 in short: as a culture. On the other hand \u2013 who dis- cusses questions of depicting and the possibility to depict \u2013 in other words: aesthetics \u2013 will easily agree with this \u2013 these communicative experiences must be thought by their dependency on the respective means of depicting, the communicative and com- munional means and communicators \u2013 commonly called \u00bbmedia\u00ab (plural).”<\/em>
\n– Torsten Meyer (2007), “Education Within a New Medium. An Introduction.”<\/p>\n

Texts to read:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Meyer, Torsten: \u201cEducation within a New Medium.\u201d In Education Within a New Medium. Edited by Torsten Meyer et al., 264-271, M\u00fcnster\/New York\/M\u00fcnchen\/Berlin: Waxmann, 2007.<\/p>\n

Schwalbe, Christina: \u201cChange of Media, Change of Scholarship, Change of University: Transition from the Graphosphere to a Digital Mediosphere.\u201d In Mashup Cultures. Edited by Stefan Sonvilla-Weiss, 178-188, Wien\/New York: Springer 2010.<\/p>\n

Proposed Tasks, choose one ore more questions to work on:<\/strong><\/p>\n