The old Projectories site that I hosted on a computer in my closet is being phased out. The new Projectories site will be hosted on wordpress at http://projectories.wordpress.com. This will lead to less work for me, and more reliability for the readers. A clear win-win situation. The new feed URL is http://feeds.feedburner.com/Projectories. Update bookmarks and your feed reader.
An article from Mark Warschauer in Learning Inquiry that seems interesting:
What constitutes learning in the 21st century will be contested terrain as our society strives toward post-industrial forms of knowledge acquisition and production without having yet overcome the educational contradictions and failings of the industrial age. Educational reformers suggest that the advent of new technologies will radically transform what people learn, how they learn, and where they learn, yet studies of diverse learners’ use of new media cast doubt on the speed and extent of change. Drawing on recent empirical and theoretical work, this essay critically examines beliefs about the nature of digital learning and points to the role of social, culture, and economic factors in shaping and constraining educational transformation in the digital era.
In the latest number of science studies there is a book review of A. Aneesh’s book Virtual Migration. It seems like an interesting read. From the review:
Aneesh offers us a productive approach by focusing on the kinds of practices that govern the global movement of capital, codes and individual lives … The difference [of the new global order] with the previous orders lie in what he calls ‘virtual migration’ where the work travels while the worker and the conditions of work remain stationary. … The autor shows … that the governance of the otherwise dispersed code and capital in ‘virutal’ work is knit though the ‘rule of code’ or the ‘rule of algorithm’. Aneesh names this ‘algogracy’ to focus on the programming code, which is under-analyzed. Algocracy is ‘a new kind of power’ and a distinguishing marker of the current era of globalization.
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