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There is a very interesting article on Open Culture by a teacher who's
course on YouTube was entirely conducted on YouTube. In the short
article she neatly summarizes and creates issue pairs (she calls them
binaries) that exist in tension and should definitely be pondered by
anyone using communications technologies to extend or displace the
traditional classroom:
1. Public/Private
2. Aural/Visual
3. Body/Digital
4. Amateur/Expert
5. Entertainment/Education
6. Control/Chaos
While she determines the implementation of the technology altered the
classroom paradigm for the worse, it is not hard to see solutions for
many of them in a course that is properly married with the appropriate
technology.
"Thinking through education on YouTube, after teaching a class using its
many resources and even greater limitations, I found that the
specificity of the site, and some of the features more generally of Web
2.0, served to unsettle six binaries that typically structure the
academic classroom. As these rigid binaries dismantle, the nature of
teaching and learning shifts (I'd say for the worse). I'd like to
briefly name and explain these dismantling binaries here (with
illustrative clips from some course videos)."
http://www.oculture.com/2008/04/teaching_on_youtube.html
_J
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