Philippe distinguishes between a personal information environment and a personal learning environment. [I know that in this case a personal learning environment isn’t just everything around me when I’m learning, but is a personalised form of a VLE. In that case, what is a personal information environment? Is it all the sources from which I [...]
The Civil War app changes in real time and plays out over four and a half years, producing a daily casualty count. This has been criticised as being too immersive – uncomfortable for many people. The Iraq War Memorial app superimposes a war memorial on a real scence http://gamesalfresco.com/2011/02/21/augmented-reality-u-s-iraq-war-memorial/ The war memorial app, brings a [...]
Learning occurs in contexts – it also creates contexts. Context is not fixed – it is an emergent property of interaction. The challenge is to go beyond modeling human activity in context, in order to augment it. (Take-away from Liz FitzGerald technology coffee morning, 19 October)
Mobile devices allow us to shift and personalise time. They allow us to visit places before we arrive and to remain in places after we have left. We renegotiate our time on the fly, and schedule soft meetings with flexible boundaries. They allow us to fill what would previously have been dead time. We dignify [...]
Different partners are likely to be part of different activity systems, with different objectives, different motivations and different tools. Shared situational objects can be a turning point in negotiations between such partners – reflecting their different perspectives on the same themes. These shared objects sit between the activity systems and offer the potential to bring [...]
I thought it made sense to end this blog about being a research student with my graduation ceremony. And I started other blogs. Lots of other blogs. (Partly because I was working on a blogging project that involved setting up lots of blogs for other people.) But the official blog is too official, and the [...]