Re: [IFETS-DISCUSS] IFETS-DISCUSSION Learning vs Educating

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Subject: Re: [IFETS-DISCUSS] IFETS-DISCUSSION Learning vs Educating
From: Bill Ellis (tranet@RANGELEY.ORG)
Date: Wed 21 May 2003 - 14:35:40 MEST 

Date:         Wed, 21 May 2003 08:35:40 -0400
From: Bill Ellis <tranet@RANGELEY.ORG>
Subject: Re: [IFETS-DISCUSS] IFETS-DISCUSSION Learning vs Educating

> From: ZHANG Jianwei <zhangjw@TSINGHUA.EDU.CN>
> Subject: What are the differences between "learning technology" and
> "educational/instructional technology"?
>
> What are the differences between "learning technology" and
> "educational/instructional technology"? I find that these \words are often
>used as replacable terms. I will appreciate your thoughts about this issue.
>
BE:
"Educating" or "Instructing" is what you do to someone else.
Some call it "brain washing" or "propaganda"

"Learning" is what a person does for him or herself.
You don't need a "school" to learn. Some believe "eduation" gets in the way
of "learning."

"Learning Technology" allows you to follow your own volition. It provides
resources so that people can learn what the want when the want and how they
want. It's nonlinear.

"Educational/instructionl technology" sets a curricula to tell people what,
when and how to get a job. It's linear.

Most cyber learning is linear eduction. A few individuals are exploring the
unique capacity of computers to provide non-linear learning. Brain research
tells us that this is the way the brain learns.

IMHO

Bill Ellis
    <www.CreatingLearningCommunities.org>

             PEOPLE ARE NOT THE PROBLEMS, THEY ARE THE SOLUTIONS
                IF THE PEOPLE LEAD, THE LEADERS WILL FOLLOW.

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