Subject: [IFETS-DISCUSSION:1157] RV: Reply to Ian Coward
From: Norma Benesdra (benesdran@sinectis.com.ar)
Date: Mon 19 Feb 2001 - 03:35:12 MET
From: "Norma Benesdra" <benesdran@sinectis.com.ar> Subject: [IFETS-DISCUSSION:1157] RV: Reply to Ian Coward Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 15:35:12 +1300
Ian wrote,
"After reading the response from Lucia Cucciarelli, from the department of
lifelong learning, I was given to wondering whether the advent of on-line
learning could possibly spell the end of traditional eduaction
establishments.The growth of home-based interaction and education through
the internet,as in the case of the British governments 'LearnDirect'
initiative, seems to me to give governmental departments, bent on saving
money, the opportunity to scale down, radically, access to public facilities
such as college learning resource centres."
Ian Coward - Department of Computing & I.T
Wigan & Leigh College,
Leigh, Lancashire, England
I think doing away with traditional learning institutions would be both
a waste of precious human interaction and information and also a
deviation from life as was given unto us by Nature/God. Of course I
consider this idea an extreme result. I hope good will prevail and we
will find a way of combining F2F educational interaction with distance
education. In fact, the latter has been a feature of many universities
for some decades now so we should not be very surprised by its use.
I think traditional education shoud make the most of modern technology
and change its outlook on students and teachers and work together
towards a more autonomous interaction based on freedom, respect,
responsibility and the right limits of each other's territories. In
turn, modern technology should take the real living conditions of each
country into consideration and cater for real needs. A useful instrument
of human work should never be allowed to take the place of a human but
cater for human needs. Why not consult the very students to see how they
feel about the whole issue? I mean consult, not decide, how we, as
adults, are going to change learning conditions. We might get some
interesting surprises if we establish a truthful dialogue and let our
students speak their mind to us.
Greeting to all! from South America
Norma Benesdra
Buenos Aires
Argentina
benesdran@sinectis.com.ar
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