Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Re: John Seely Brown and the Zeitgeist

Hi Fred,
Thanks for both of your posts of JSB videos. I got through about an hour of the McKay School of Ed one last night. Very stimulating.
Got any more?
Jim Lerman

-----Original Message-----
>From: Fred Bartels <fredbartels@gmail.com>
>Sent: May 4, 2010 8:50 AM
>To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
>Subject: John Seely Brown and the Zeitgeist
>
>I'm going to go out on a limb a bit here and say that John Seely Brown is
>channeling the zeitgeist. (He might prefer 'surfing the zeitgeist.')
>
>For those of you not familiar with the word zeitgeist, it means the spirit
>of the times. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeitgeist
>
>It may be just the edtech echo chamber I'm calling the zeitgeist, but in any
>case, Brown seems to be bringing together and weaving into a coherent
>tapestry many of the ideas about pedagogy and technology that a lot of us
>have been thinking about for most of this year.
>
>Brown's recent talk at MIT titled "Blended Learning Revisited" provides a
>good overview of his thinking.
>
>http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/765
>
>--
>Fred Bartels
>Dir. of Info. Tech.
>Rye Country Day School
>
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