This brief essay surveys existing research related to time and learning through educational technologies.
“The days of rabbit-skin coats and dog-drawn komatik are, for the most part, long gone, but Honigmann has captured and saved these and other images forever. They are cultural treasures.” (p 8)
“… when asked to document what they like and dislike in their community, the participants mainly chose to photograph and comment on positive aspects of their lives. The relational nature of the annotated photographs and the editorial choices of the participants highlights the responsibility of both mass media and academic literature to balance their reporting with young people’s input.” (p 254)
The act of photography exposes the photographer to the subject, inasmuch as the subject is exposed to the photographer. This mutual exposure creates an opportunity for engagement. The act of photography provides for a dialogue between the subject and an imagined audience, with the photographer as intermediary.
“A number of film developers today are said to be based on the original formulations of the esteemed but now-discontinued Agfa Rodinal, a high-acutance, paraminophenol-based (4-Aminophenol) developer.”
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“While some would argue that higher grades are a reflection of ambition and hard work, they are more so a distraction from a deeper learning process.” (¶1)
“A bug has been recurring in LibreOffice for Mac OSX in which the display of documents appears pixelated on Apple’s high-resolution “Retina” monitors. Until a stable fix is introduced into the source code, here is a procedure that has been found to correct this interface flaw.”
“The horrors of that prison were so great that one man went over the line, and refused to leave it until he was shot dead. So great was the horror and misery of that place that I myself had thoughts of going over that dead-line to be shot in preference to living there.” (p 73)
“… effective educational communities which seek to involve all students in their social and intellectual life … . … effective retention is possible only when retention per se is no longer the goal of retention programs.” (p 1)
“It is not only the government who is following us and trying to influence our behavior. In fact, it is the standard business model of the Internet. Our behaviour on the Internet is nearly always mediated by a third party. … The biggest commercial intermediary is Google who by now decides, among other things how I walk from the station to the theatre, in which way I will treat the symptoms of my cold, whether an email I’ve sent to somebody else should be marked as spam, where best I can book a hotel, and whether or not I have an appointment next week Thursday.” (¶22)