A matrix moment

1
A matrix moment

• There is no spoon
• The blog/wiki/Facebook site that students
  seeisnt the same blog/wiki/Facebook site we see
• The ones we create are certainly not the same
• Can we explain how these things are different?
  (And is it something to do with discipline, in
  various sense of the word?)

2
Do we really know what students do anyhow?

• Designing for students (not with, or by)
• Our expectations of how they act what evidence,
  if any, do we have to back this up?
• Do we know whats best for them? (Will they hate
  stuff thats hard even if its good for them? Can
  we explain why weve done it, what our principles
  are?)
• Are we basing our designs on good ideas, our
  practices or theirs?

3
Unreality

• Do students experience these interventions as
  authentic (whatever that means)
• Is it real blogging, or social networking, or
• Is receiving template/automated feedback, no
  matter how personal, seen as genuine engagement
  with staff?
• Are the applications were using really the ones
  they use? (Should they be?)

4
And tomorrow the world

• Formalisation of private learning time
• Specification of private study activity
• Monitoring online activity (24/7) surveillance
  and the panopticon
• Learning outside the classroom its all part of
  the curriculum now
• How do they really react to our incursion?
• Is it a well-intentioned but unnecessary invasion?

5
Playful identities

• Why do we take their comments so seriously?
• How would we react to comments in a student
  magazine?
• How can we convey our identities?
• Students as heritage tourists, wanting to visit
  the old relics the need to convey a sense of
  self
• Managing the separation of private and
  professional selves