Arun-Kumar Tripathi (tripathi@amadeus.statistik.uni-dortmund.de)
Thu, 1 Apr 1999 05:13:24 +0200 (MET DST)
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 05:13:24 +0200 (MET DST) From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi@amadeus.statistik.uni-dortmund.de> Subject: Re: IFETS-DISCUSS Digest - 29 Mar 1999 to 30 Mar 1999
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On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Kursat Cagiltay wrote:
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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.
Exceptions as above can be possible. You said, that "..my daughter will be
educated as I educated in the past...". You yourself had said it all. Yes,
Tools are there, but without any expertise the tools are useless, so we
need intelligence teachers. If one is not using the technology , then It
gets junked and needs polishing. Therefore, we must have to build a
relationship between Tools, Expertise and Experts.
> 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
Building a constructive Model analog to the traditional teaching may be
difficult for online learning. But, I have in favor of changes.
> > learning communities which inlude, not only the student and the teacher but
> > expert practitioners from the particular discipline being studied.
> >
> > Regards
> > Alan Holzl
>
Kind Regards
Arun Tripathi
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