[Xmca-l] Re: remote_online learning?

[Tom Richardson]

Hi Anthony
Have fun with that 'assignment'
Best
Tom




On Tue, 19 May 2020 at 17:40, Anthony Barra <anthonymbarra@gmail.com> wrote:

> Interesting question!  Instead of being useful by contributing a
> productive answer, I'll pose a tiny, off-topic, rhetorical question just as
> a fun little game: what would the headline be for the same article in seven
> other publications? (Stereotypes accepted!)
> 1. The Guardian - How big tech plans to profit from the pandemic
> (reprinted from The Intercept)
> 2. The Intercept - Screen New Deal: Under cover of mass death, Andrew
> Cuomo calls in the billionaires to build a high-tech dystopia
> 3.
> 4.
> 5.
> 6.
> 7.
> 8.
>
> It's a very interesting topic, in my opinion, and not just because my
> current job might one day become obsolete. It's also interesting to note
> the early rhetorical framing that various organizations are already
> bringing to the topic (as they attempt to assign our opinions to us?).
>
> Sorry to side-step your interesting email, Tom!  I'm sure others will
> respond to it productively, and I'm interested to hear what they'll say.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Anthony
>
> P.S.  I kind of like this little assignment and will probably use it soon,
> as a collaborative task in my "distance learning" classroom : )
>
>
> On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 12:07 PM Tom Richardson <
> tom.richardson3@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> Greetings Xmca-ers
>> I would   like to raise a question.
>> In the article by Naomi Klein linked below, apart from all the major
>> questions about  our futures  - personal freedom, health protection,
>> democratic control and the power of Big Digital Tech_AI, international
>> competition etc. that she raises, I wondered what from a Vygotskyan
>> approach to child/human development/education can / should be a reply to
>> these sentences on the 'home schooling' that has (or hasn't) been
>> happening  recently:
>>
>>
>> "Indeed, Schmidt has been relentless in pursuing this vision. Two weeks
>> after that article appeared, he described
>> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtAyGVuRQME__;!!Mih3wA!VRgkzssOuSyNvpVQWR2QH7dShhiXD5eWtYs2HahNwv_pKUU7G9GOQZMrzIpGsa_-KDBGFw$> the
>> ad-hoc home schooling programming that teachers and families across the
>> country had been forced to cobble together during this public health
>> emergency as “a massive experiment in remote learning”.
>>
>> The goal of this experiment, he said, was “trying to find out: how do
>> kids learn remotely? And with that data we should be able to build better
>> remote and distance learning tools which, when combined with the teacher …
>> will help kids learn better.” "
>>
>> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/may/13/naomi-klein-how-big-tech-plans-to-profit-from-coronavirus-pandemic__;!!Mih3wA!VcnorHMEHobh1Yn91XMkJgrUfVslUxKhUfoHkH6IqErzg0P030HjxzHOWMR59lUhsq75lA$ 
>> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/may/13/naomi-klein-how-big-tech-plans-to-profit-from-coronavirus-pandemic__;!!Mih3wA!VRgkzssOuSyNvpVQWR2QH7dShhiXD5eWtYs2HahNwv_pKUU7G9GOQZMrzIpGsa-SnnFGDg$>
>>
>>
>> Just asking
>> Tom Richardson
>> Middlesbrough UK
>>
>>
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