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David,
While you are kind enough not to say it this way, I think that you are
right - in retrospect the list is fairly trite to experienced educators.
But, I am a sucker for any model that incorporates the idea of tensions.
I think healthy tension is the hallmark of any successful system and I
wonder if there are other models that use these kinds of dichotomies as
a basis for evaluating educational technology.
Thoughts or suggestions appreciated.
_Jason
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Jason -
As always you bring us a critical view of everything.=20
1. While I think that Alexandra Juhasz brings a critical view of
students and learning
spaces that we need to heed. Her argument about private/private holds
water only if the
"classroom" is a part of an open environment. What if those environments
had
gatekeepers/permissions?=20
2. The aural/visual agrement is simply spurious. Aren't we as
the educators responsible
for changing this? The question is how.
3. The shared experience is not a physical experience. Let's
take a look at actors.
Often the audience equates actors with their roles. How is that
different from how we
experience teachers is classroom?
4. While I would agree that the expert/amateur argument has some
merit, again that is
our (the educator)'s responsibility to elucidate, isn't it?
5. Great teachers are often entertainers; what is the
difference, really? Isn't part of
my job to engage a student in discovering the world? And isn't my job to
use the medium
of the student to ask (even subtly) the questions that challenge towards
learning?
6. So assist the student is ordering our learning space and
placing discipline upon it.
That is our basic job. We order the chaos of the world into logical
categories that
informs us in a useful manner.=20
David=20
David F. Withrow
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Harford Day School
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- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In
practice, there is.
- Yogi Berra
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