Re: Terminology and language

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Dr Paul Davis (paul.davis@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk)
Mon, 17 May 1999 15:15:42 +0100 (BST) 

From: Dr Paul Davis <paul.davis@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Terminology and language
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 15:15:42 +0100 (BST)

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> Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 11:30:09 -0400
How right I feel Bob is! A lot of the time I look through
this discussion list and can not make any sense of what is
being said. I wholeheartedly agree with Bob's comments
about Knowledge, Information and Education. If I can
follow what someone is saying in plain language, then I
will think about what use this knowledge might be to me in
providing better teaching. However when it is full of
jargon such that the person cannot convince me what they
are talking about, then it goes straight in the bin.
More posts please in plain language
Paul

> From: Bob Leamnson <RLEAMNSON@umassd.edu> Subject:
> current discussion
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> Richard Elmore (1996) lamented that pedagogical
> theories and methods, even very good ones, often languish
> or settle into small isolated pockets here and there. Why
> is a good teaching idea not like a good gene that soon (in
> evolutionary terms) becomes established in a community?
> I have a theory of my own on the problem (1999),...
I > came to believe that the group that pursues this area
> of research has a private language. Words that the rest of
> us thought we knew and understood seem suddenly to mean
> something else.
> Bob Leamnson
> UMass Dartmouth
>

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