Kursat Cagiltay (kursat@indiana.edu)
Wed, 31 Mar 1999 08:33:38 +0200
From: "Kursat Cagiltay" <kursat@indiana.edu> Subject: Re: IFETS-DISCUSS Digest - 29 Mar 1999 to 30 Mar 1999 Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 08:33:38 +0200
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Alan
I'd like to share your and others optimistic views. But the current
research does not support your ideas much (at least the ones that I read).
For example, in his book (Teachers and machines), Larry Cuban analyses the
classroom use of technology since 1920 and he found out that our schools
did not change much in this time frame. In the past, most of the things
that were told for Films, TV, Radio, and programmed machines are being
told for computers today. None of the previous technologies had greater
impact on educational system. I am afraid today we have similar
expectations from computers and the Internet. In another book (I think
it is "Digital Age") the author makes a comparison between a doctor and a
teacher. If we have a chance to bring those two persons from 1890s the
teacher is the person that adapt today the most easily. Because, in
education, almost nothing has changed in the past 100 years. In addition
to this, most of the research shows that bringing computers to the
classroom does not cause any shift from teacher centered education to
student centered education.
I hope the future will be different than the past and the technology will
cause the changes that you wrote. But I am afraid my daughter (and maybe
her kids also) will be educated as I educated in the past.
Kursat
> technology to "transmit" the classroom around the world. I strongly
> support Yannis Karaliotas in that "it is high time we soon radically
> changed our teaching practices". The way we change them is by letting go
> of the old "transmission" model of teaching and embrace a "constructivist"
> model, preferably a "social constructivist" model. We can use the
> technology to create online constructivist learning environments and online
> learning communities which inlude, not only the student and the teacher but
> expert practitioners from the particular discipline being studied.
>
> Regards
> Alan Holzl
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