Matt’s notes
Hello and good evening! We are, surprisingly… at least to me… on episode #8!
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This has really been one of those weeks where… my son was sick for awhile… got me sick… he got better… went to his mom’s… turned thirteen… concluded his football season… won the top spot in the 3×3 basketball tourney… came back to my place… successfully tried out for his high school basketball team… got sick again… and got me sick again… and so we’ve been home all week so far, both of us… so any semblance of “productivity” on these (podcasting) endeavours is even more lacking than usual…
Oh, and FUCK THE DISCOVERY DOCTRINE!
Henceforth, Matt hopes to have these Notes in the proper order to which our vast… and informed… and good-looking audience has become accustomed.
Doug’s notes
Retro tech: Newer is not always better
Accessibility
- Accessible to people who cannot attend regular classes due to social, structural or personal reasons.
- Not limiting: people with disabilities can have access
- Learning resources adaptable to different media
Flexibility
- Physical flexibility to study at a time and place that suits learners.
- Educational flexibility to study in a manner appropriate for learners’ needs.
- Content, sequencing and structure of ODL programs are developed to support learners and are not strictly fixed like conventional academic institutions.
Learner-Centredness
- Provides education and training in a way that prioritize learners’ needs, rather than institutional convenience.
- Enables learners to pursue their studies in a way that is appropriate for their circumstances, learning goals and styles.
- Provide good quality learning materials in appropriate, accessible media, and gives sufficient support to ensure learners have a good chance of successful learning.
Widad, Othman. (Assoc. Prof) (2008, October 14). Educational Opportunity for teachers in Remote School Through Open University Malaysia Learning Model. Paper presented at The 22nd AAOU Annual Conference, Tianjin, China.
Since the remote areas lack basic amenities such as 24/7 electricity supply and communication infrastructure like cellular coverage, fixed line telephone and television broadcast signal, Faculty of Education decided to search for technology that could operate in this restricted environment and is able to fit these four criteria; interactive, easy to set up, low cost and ability to reach remote areas where the learners are. Faculty of Education could not find the solution when it looked forward into hi-tech communication technology of today since it does not meet all the four criteria required. The faculty decided to look into retro technology which is less demanding on technology infrastructure and cost. The use of two-way radio (TWR) is proposed as it is able to support the learning and teaching environment of the ‘pedalaman’ and fits the four required criteria.
Two way radio / ham radio
Alice Springs School of the Air – Australia
Teo, H. T., & Othman, W. (2010). Revisiting Retro Technology to Extend Educational Opportunity to Teachers in Remote Schools (pp. 502-509). Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE).
Research about non-users of technology may be framed in terms of concerns about access to certain technologies or internet services and ‘digital divides’ between those with or without such access. However, even those (like university lecturers) who have relatively easy access to technology and may use it frequently, occasionally make decisions to stop using particular technologies. Sometimes this is because an older technology, e.g. the Video Cassette Recorder, has been superseded and replaced but, as this paper will show, this is not always the case and even relatively new technologies, such as Facebook, may be adopted and then discarded. This article is therefore not about non-users of technology but about the decisions that users make about the specific technologies they use. In particular, it considers lecturers’ experiences of using technology in their teaching and the reasons they give for ceasing to use specific technologies.
Shelton, C. (2017). Giving up technology and social media: why university lecturers stop using technology in teaching. Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 26(3), 303-321.
Some tech did not work and should not have been used in education to begin with.
‘Innovation’ has become an inescapable buzzword in recent years: the European Commission (EC) has established an ‘Innovation Policy’, which aims to create better jobs, build a greener society, improve quality of life and maintain EU competitiveness (EC 2019).
We argue that retro-innovation represents a critical practice, undertaken to counter modernisation trends.
A conceptualisation of retro-innovation, simply defined as:
The purposeful revival of historic practices, ideas and/or technologies…
Zagata, L., Sutherland, L. A., Hrabák, J., & Lostak, M. (2020). Mobilising the past: Towards a conceptualisation of retro‐innovation. Sociologia ruralis, 60(3), 639-660.
Far from being abandoned and forgotten, many old media devices and artefacts (such as vinyl records, cassette tapes, analogue photographic cameras, early videogames and brick mobile phones, to mention just a few notable examples) are nowadays readopted by young generations and niche media subcultures. (Is education a niche media subculture?)
Over the last 15 years, we have witnessed a significant reappropriation of media technologies from the past, which has attracted both scholarly and popular interest.
Retromedia (Roy, 2014) or Retrotechnologies (Sarpong et al., 2016)
Magaudda, P., & Minniti, S. (2019). Retromedia-in-practice: A practice theory approach for rethinking old and new media technologies. Convergence, 25(4), 673-693.
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