by andflywrite | Oct 20, 2018 | BEST LINKS EVER
This audio recording of McLuhan has some technical difficulties, but still overall “good enough”, and is one of McLuhan’s more playful lectures, with, as per usual, a high rate of insights per minute. He gets into some typical McLuhan...
by andflywrite | Oct 18, 2018 | BEST LINKS EVER
As has been noted, Marshall McLuhan worked on developing curricula for HS students to enable “understanding media”. At that time, the big media transformation ongoing was that of from print and radio to TV. He noted that teachers born before the transition...
by andflywrite | Oct 18, 2018 | BEST LINKS EVER
McLuhan is famously hard to summarize or to structure hierarchically… or to put into a short elevator speech describing and revealing what he was/ is all about. This YouTube audio lecture is one of the more accessible ways in to Understanding McLuhan, but...
by andflywrite | Oct 18, 2018 | BEST LINKS EVER
Elliott Masie’s annual big EdTech and Learning conference in Florida takes place in early November this year. This huge event is extremely comprehensive and tends to include at least a little of everything going on in EdTech currently. (100 pages…worth at...
by andflywrite | Oct 17, 2018 | BEST LINKS EVER
The challenge of “A New Place” is so broad, comprehensive, and yet deep all at the same time, that perhaps the best way forward, rather than trying to synthesize everything into one big package, would be to create a list of relevant factors....
by andflywrite | Oct 17, 2018 | BEST LINKS EVER
If we apply some of McLuhan’s perspectives on media, we might be able to explain why suddenly Podcasts seem to have “come into their own”, with greatly increased “listenership”. Marshall would say, of course, podcasts are aural, and this...
