Linda’s Comments (group member since Apr 02, 2013)

Linda’s comments from the EDCMOOC group.

I'm recommending this to my spouse who plays podcasts while drifting off to sleep.

It was truly a delight--reading some wonderful books and short stories, and participating in these wonderful conversations.

I am so glad for this news! I bought the book and have not had time to read it, so this postponement is perfect for me. Looking forward to 7 March.

KC, that question about MOOCs as a form of Western hegemony came up in my Twitter feed recently too...what an easy way to spread an ideology and call it education, no? [Please excuse my cynicism, here on the 4th of July in the US]

More to think about: diaspora. If you had to leave the place you call home (which may be where you were born or another place on the planet altogether) what would you take with you to remind you of who you are? What stories would you tell to explain your home culture?

The collectivist over individualist theme is one of the first questions--I keep thinking about the scene in Star Trek III where Spock says, as he is dying, that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one. In this case, what gets lost forever with that sacrifice? And how does that resonate with our lives and purpose?

Preliminary chat questions will be forthcoming soon!

thanks for the link too!

Building on one of the previous questions: physiologically, we remember a story we are told in the same way we remember something that we actual experienced. How do we separate the two? And is it a defect or a commonality that they get conflated?

I will use tweetchat. Looking forward to the discussion, as I've enjoyed a lot of Cory Doctorow's fiction.