That was the week that was

Forums aren't open yet for the collaborative parts, but I appear to have finished the first week's readings, & the activity responses are ready to go....

The main theme was Demolition of Myths. This was quite handy since my own tutoring work has just involved marking student assignments on the distinction between propaganda-based myth & evidence-based historical explanations in the context of Stalin's reputation(s). 

[http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Stalinist/]

(Positive myth #2: glorious war leader & saviour of the nation)

For H800, the bogeyman is sensationalist commentators who foment moral panic by lecturing us about the 'net generation', 'digital natives vs digital immigrants' & worse still, the 'Google generation'. All tosh, it seems. Some young people are quicker at this ICT stuff than us wrinklies, but some of them aren't, & they're all different from each other anyway. The sky is not about to fall in as a result of being rudely poked by multi-tasking youngsters taking a break from their iPods & Playstations to plagiarise their homework.

Nice to have some pretty graphs to confirm what I already suspected.