Artifacts vs. products in new media: unfinished and incomplete

I passively accepted the use of the term ‘artifacts’ when referring to knowledge constructions and only now have I paused to think of why I was so accepting of it. Why not use the term ‘products’ or even ‘constructions’ or the increasingly unwieldy “knowledge representations”? Why not ‘writing’ or ‘digital essays’ or any of the […]

Engaging with Artifacts for Future Design and Past Reflection; Pinterest & 20 year anniversaries

My world is now about theory, media, and learning as a result informally of my general scattershot interests and formally of my doctoral studies. I am not saying this focus on theory, media, and learning has been smooth as silk; in particular, the formal part of this equation (the doctoral part) has been at times […]

Mapping out multimodal methods for mobile (and alliterating, apparently)

Community and Multimodality: Laying out a Disciplinary Flow I am making my way through the first few rounds of rewrites on my thesis and all is going well. As I wrote before, there has been significant shift in my focus and it now rests squarely in the Humanities practices of Korean higher education, specifically Seoul […]

Research Construction for MLearning in the Humanities: Serving Two Masters

So, things are proceeding (relatively) nicely at the Institute of Education as I push through the first round of courses, meetings, administrative duties, and supervisory consultations. Some of these are proceeding as expected (particularly the supervisory relationships), some I look at quizzically as they seem rooted in another (far less urgent) time, and some seem fine for […]

Vygotsky’s theoretical construct as city: Life is a constant feeling of effervescence

I am knee-deep in the normal rounds of doctoral reading that someone with any remote connection to the liberal arts, education, or even just doctoral school is bound to read. They are like the tattoos of the doctoral student (or artefacts, perhaps), these reading lists. They include the normal Vygostky, Lave and Wenger, Engestrom and […]

Mobile Learning and the Practice of History in Higher Education (Part 1): Questions and Assumptions

This post represents the first of many posts outlining a particularly large research project/proposal I am working on currently (and have been for about the past year) discussing the role of mobile learning in the practice of History in higher education in developing nations. I started out, if you can believe this, much broader than […]

Zones of Proximal Development, Mobile Learning, and Art

Pushing forward with my #MobiMOOC post for the day as I was intrigued by comments on the Google Group discussion board from Ignatia regarding Vygotsky and “Zones of Proximal Development.” She explained it better so will quote her directly.  Vygotsky had a theory that the in order for learning to happen, the distance between the understanding of […]