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Straight Lines or Circles? Digital Sustainability
There are two prevalent discourses in education at the moment, one about sustainability and climate change, and the other about digitisation and AI. They are deeply entwined but only occasionally discussed together.
I have been reading Sand Talk by Tyson Yunkaporta (He writes from his Aboriginal perspective, sharing a series of yarns which explore how indigenous thinking can save the world – definitely a recommended read). The thing that resonated most with me in relation to the discourses above was thinking about things as circles or straight lines. AI is a common topic of conversation currently, but rarely with consideration of how much energy it needs. When asked...read more
Learning Theory for the Digital Age
Situated practice refers to where learning takes place. Learning takes place at a given point in history and in a certain geographical, social and cultural space. It is situated. It is not an objective process, separate to the environment in which it is happening. And we do not start from scratch, we carry on from where previous generations left off. Vygotsky described this as human consciousness, the learning that previous generations had done, passed on through social interactions. That learning is organised for us; in the western world...read more