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4/13/2011 Whose game are w e playing? y g Herbert Thomas Electronic Learning Media Head: Division eLearning Electronic Learning Media Team Leader 1 4/13/2011 Learning goals Learning goals dictate the use of technology 2 4/13/2011

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Whose game are w e playing? y g

Herbert Thomas Electronic Learning Media

Head: Division eLearning

Electronic Learning Media Team Leader

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Learning goals Learning goals dictate the use of technology

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“The medium is the message”

Marshall McLuhan

Media are extensions of human sensory perception

Marshall McLuhan

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“If a human mind can come to know, and if the human mind is, essentially, a network, …” “then any y network can come to know”

Stephen Downes

“Minimum amount of meaningful, non-random, but unpredictable information needed

to characterize a system or process” Ray Kurzweil

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“We have massively plastic brains” brains”

Michael Merzenich

References Slide 1: Image: http://www.canterbury.ac.za Slide 2: First image: http://www.ufs.ac.za Second image: http://www.canterbury.ac.nz Slide 3: Image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/4972891490/ Slide 4: Background image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/billward/3084194962/ Foreground image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellemccann/5147089767/ g g p // /p / / / Slide 5: Image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/7394880@N04/3834234692/ Quotation: McLuhan, Marshall. 1964. Understanding media: the extensions of man. London: Routledge Slide 6: Image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/adjourned/481972945/ Quotation McLuhan, Marshall. 1964. Understanding media: the extensions of man. London: Routledge Slide 7: Image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sjcockell/4405616339/ Quotation: Downes, Stephen. 2005. An introduction to connective knowledge. Available: http://www.downes.ca/post/33034 (accessed 20 May 2008). Slide 8: First image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/1080p/2421386153/ S d i htt // fli k / h t / k 76/3698899293/ Second image http://www.flickr.com/photos/pasukaru76/3698899293/ Third image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationnist/3436779560/ Quotation: Kurzweil, Ray. 2005. The singularity is near: when humans transcend biology. New York: Viking. Slide 9: Image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/64476710@N00/4991822665/ Quotation: Carr, Nicholas. 2010. The shallows: what the Internet is doing to our brains. New York: W.W. Norton & Company Inc.

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