Reading + watching for week 3 #EDCMOOC

Just a quick note - will expand later. It is now past midnight in my timezone, and Morfeus is calling:-)

have been reading:
Badmington, Neil (2000) Introduction: approaching posthumanism. Posthumanism. Houndmills; New York: Palgrave. http://www.palgrave.com/PDFs/0333765389.Pdf

and

Kolowich, S (2010) The Human Element. Inside Higher Ed http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/03/29/lms.

and Monke, L (2004) The Human Touch, EducationNext http://educationnext.org/thehumantouch/.

Specially Monke brought a fresh view to the debate about technology and education for me. I would not call it Luddite or "old humanist". His central proposition is that learning takes time and that technology is overloading us with loads of information in such a short time stretch that mediated 'learning' becomes counterproductive. Enjoyed the clips this week. The advertisements were sort of entertaining but I missed a link to either a dystopian future or a reassertion of a human factor. The "World builder" was brilliantly done, stunning film techniques. The best clip with the closest link to the subject matter o week 3 seems to me "Meat" Short film produced at the New York Film Academy and directed by Stephen o'Regan, written by Terry Bisson. Dialogue between two aliens studying humans, concluding they're all meat. "How do the communicate?" "By meat"... Made me think though that what actually goes on in our brains when we think and communicate (and in other animal's brains too for that matter) is signals between cells. The firing of carrier signals between synapses.