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Posts tagged with: hard technology
And so it ends...
By Jon Dron November 25, 2011 - 10:05pm Comments (8)Well, actually, I'm very happy to continue the conversation and develop this group space if anyone is interested. However, we are reaching the end of my week at the Change11 MOOC so this is probably the last post in this space for a while, back to...So, we had this meeting and talked about soft and hard things...
By Jon Dron November 23, 2011 - 1:05pm Comments (3)I finished the first synchronous sesssion for my bit of the #change MOOC a little while ago. Self referentially, I was a victim of a hard technology of my own devising, a set of slides that formed the background to my talk that, as I talked through...Kevin Kelly on Immortal Technologies
By Jon Dron 8 November 2011 @ 6:01amwww.kk.org - Wonderful post on how technologies never really die. This means that, in the grand scheme of things, the adjacent possible keeps expanding at an accelerating rate.Learning analytics, soft and hard
By Jon Dron 8 November 2011 @ 5:58amwww.slideshare.net - A presentation for LAK11, another MOOC, talking about potential issues relating to soft and hard learning analyticsOrchestrating soft and hard technologies
By Jon Dron 8 November 2011 @ 5:57amwww.slideshare.net - A SlideShare presentation about ways to build technologies for learning
Discussion
Last updated November 20, 2011 - 11:06am by Jon Dron Comments (3)Researching elephants If we see technologies as the orchestration of phenomena to some use, and some of that orchestration is done by people (which is what makes technologies soft) then it is not enough that the technologies should work well. We...-
Examples
Last updated November 8, 2011 - 1:43am by Jon DronHere are two simple examples of the kind of thing I have in mind for specifying a soft technology in an appropriate format. Neither is particularly good and both could definitely be improved or refined. They could also be presented more wonderfully.... -
Playing
Last updated November 20, 2011 - 11:28am by Jon DronDesigning soft technologies This is an activity to help get a stronger sense of what I mean by a soft technology, what one looks like and how it works. It is also quite good fun and might actually lead to some useful ideas and new (soft)...
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