for the link.
The other funny thing is that it appears easier to design/fund/launch a 1:1
Laptop Program than come to agreement about the "simple rules .... that
defines what the community believes about teaching and learning" that the
article refers to. Autonomy can be defined and defended in many ways, and
that could mean that "rules" should be avoided as much as possible... The
benefit of this, however, isn't always clear.
As Fred notes, technology is in a strange space because it is individually
empowering, yet that doesn't necessarily mean it will transform a system. I
believe the article is correct is that the road map needs to be clear, if
the new "cognitive tools" are going to help us reach a new place together.
Jim Heynderickx
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Fred Bartels <fredbartels@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for sending the link. Funny how things spiral around in education. I
> first met Bain on a visit to Brewster fifteen years ago to see their laptop
> program. He didn't want to talk about laptops but about their pedagogy. I
> met Weston a few years later at an Apple event in Tarrytown (he worked for
> Apple then). Weston and a bunch of NYC IT folks worked closely together for
> a few years to move Apple toward better support of student laptop programs.
> Nothing came of it although we had an interesting meeting with Apple's VP
> for Education which Weston arranged. What's curious, from a Deweyian
> perspective, is that Bain and Weston are two of the more controlling people
> I've met. Just can't see them buying into giving people much autonomy. :-)
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Bassett, Patrick <bassett@nais.org> wrote:
>
> > FYI: Interesting article on and response to 1:1 computing critics: "The
> > End of Techno-critique." It was recently published in the Journal of
> > Technology Learning and Assessment. Go to
> > http://escholarship.bc.edu/jtla/vol9/6/
> >
> > Cheers.
> >
> > PFB
> >
> >
>
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