Author Archives: NomadWarMachine

Posh white boys

Posted on 26th January 2015 by NomadWarMachine

There’s a common assumption that there is a gender bias in STEM subjects in HE, but a recent study released in Science has discovered that this is not  actually the real story, and that actually philosophy is among the five subjects with the … Continue reading →

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Along the way, take time to smell the flowers

Posted on 22nd January 2015 by NomadWarMachine

I love gardening, and I am also fond of gardening metaphors.  It’s one of the many things I like about Deleuze and Guattari’s metaphor (?) of the rhizome and  Dave Cormier’s rhizomatic learning – the botanical themes that run through and … Continue reading →

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Walk this way

Posted on 21st January 2015 by NomadWarMachine

Critical pedagogy, it is suggested, is an approach that shows, rather than tells.  In a similar vein, Wittgenstein tells us don’t think, but look!1 So am I walking the way I want to walk?  Are students really  well advised to … Continue reading →

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Capitalism and Exclusion

Posted on 20th January 2015 by NomadWarMachine

Once we had leper colonies, places to isolate the diseased and hide them from public view.  They are closed now, in the Western world, and on the whole I doubt many of us would believe that leprosy was a sign … Continue reading →

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Capitalism and Freire

Posted on 19th January 2015 by NomadWarMachine

  Indeed, the interests of the oppressors lie in “changing the consciousness of the oppressed,  not the situation which oppresses them”; for the more the oppressed can be led to adapt to that situation, the more easily they can be dominated. (Simone de Beauvoir, … Continue reading →

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HEA STEM conference 2014

Posted on 12th May 2014 by NomadWarMachine

A couple of weeks ago I attended the HEA STEM conference in Edinburgh.  I was a bit out of my comfort zone for a couple of reasons – first because I’m a philosopher, and STEM scares me a bit, and … Continue reading →

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#ocTEL week 0: Big and Little Questions

Posted on 29th April 2014 by NomadWarMachine

Another day, another MOOC, this time ocTEL 2014, the MOOC run by ALT.  As ever, I’m just signing up to see what it’s like, and actually wondering whether these low level activities are good for me or whether (probably) I’d … Continue reading →

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BlendKit2014 week 1

Posted on 24th April 2014 by NomadWarMachine

I’ve just realised that I@ve sugned up for another MOOC, this one called: Blendkit2014, becoming a blended designer.  I’m not sure how much time I’ll give to this, it’s not gripping me so far, but here goes… For the first … Continue reading →

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Lecture notes

Posted on 23rd April 2014 by NomadWarMachine

I gave a workshop today about Flipping Classrooms which I’ll blog about on my other blog.  At one point I paraphrased Eric Mazur saying something like this: College is a place where a professor’s lecture notes go straight to the students’ … Continue reading →

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Moocaholic

Posted on 4th April 2014 by NomadWarMachine

My name is Sarah and I am a MOOCaholic Only joking, well sort of. This post has been brewing for a while and it’s been sparked off again by some discussions in our #rhizo14 Facebook group.  I posted a link … Continue reading →

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