As always you bring us a critical view of everything.
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?
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.
David
David F. Withrow
Director of Technology
Harford Day School
Bel Air, Maryland 21014
voice: 410 879 2350 ex 33
fax: 410 836 5918
http://www.harfordday.org
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is.
- Yogi Berra
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