[Xmca-l] Re: Messages on XMCA

[Luisa Aires <laires11@gmail.com>]

Dear Greg
There are several constraints and I would like to point out:
1- Lack of funding.
2- The difficulty to bring together students, universities, companies,
local authorities around a common goal: to participate in social inclusion
processes with digital media.
3- A kind of a (political) demonization of education to digital
participation, after a strong investment (in the country) in the access to
digital artifacts.

Best,
Luísa


On 6 October 2013 16:30, Greg Thompson <greg.a.thompson@gmail.com> wrote:

> Luisa,
> Could you say more about the "but it's hard" part of your comment?
> Wondering what kinds of challenges you are up against in developing a
> 5D/clase magica-like program in the north of Portugal.
> -greg
> p.s. apologies for my lack of diacritics!
>
>
> On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 3:14 AM, Luisa Aires <laires11@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > “Mediation through artifacts” opened me the way to interpret adult
> learning
> > and mediated action with television, almost twenty years ago. Right now I
> > am trying to analyze learning with digital media - locally situated
> > literacies within local cultures. I am trying to "push" a program like
> > Cole’s Fifth Dimension, Vasquez’s “La clase mágica”, in rural territories
> > in the north of Portugal, but it’s hard ;-)
> > Best,
> >
> > Luísa Aires, Ph.D.
> > Department of Education and Distance Learning
> > Universidade Aberta (Portugal)
> >
> > On 5 October 2013 18:35, Elizabeth Hadley Nickrenz <
> nickrenz@uchicago.edu
> > >wrote:
> >
> > > Right now I am busiest with the start of my Introduction to Human
> > > Development course, looking back on rough spots from last year and
> trying
> > > to figure out how to fine-tune and improve them. Which reminds me, I
> had
> > a
> > > question I wanted to ask you all. Does anyone have any examples of
> > > "mediation through artifacts" and/or  "practical activity" that they
> have
> > > found particularly helpful in illustrating these concepts for
> > > undergraduates?
> > >
> > > Best,
> > >
> > > Elizabeth Fein, Ph.D.
> > > Department of Comparative Human Development
> > > University of Chicago
> > >
> > >
> > > ________________________________________
> > > From: xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu [xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu
> ]
> > > on behalf of mike cole [lchcmike@gmail.com]
> > > Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2013 4:01 PM
> > > To: xmca-l@ucsd.edu; eXtended Mind, Culture,Activity
> > > Cc: Bruce Jones
> > > Subject: [Xmca-l]  Messages on XMCA
> > >
> > > Bruce is asking about absence of email on xmca. I have sent a couple of
> > > message, but of course do not
> > > see them except later on the accumulated list.
> > >
> > > What's new? There sure are a lot of you out there. Hit  reply and say
> > > something about what you
> > > are working on or wondering about.
> > >
> > > For example, I have been fussing over vocabulary confusions in a course
> > > that I visit in Colorado taught by
> > > Kris G.  Learning, development, practice, zoped, social situation of
> > > development, context...... how are they related in Vygotky's theor??
> > Simple
> > > questions like that.
> > >
> > > And you??
> > > mike
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Gregory A. Thompson, Ph.D.
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> Department of Anthropology
> 883 Spencer W. Kimball Tower
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