Glenn Ralston (gralston@in.net)
Fri, 02 Jul 1999 18:47:24 -0500
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 18:47:24 -0500 From: Glenn Ralston <gralston@in.net> Subject: Re: More Technology as a Tool
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While eloquent, those selected anecdotes further below far oversimplify the challenge. On the
other hand, I am reminded of Victor Hugo's anticipation:
-- "The invention of printing is the greatest event in history.
It is the mother of all revolutions; it is humanity's mode
of expression made completely afresh; it is human thought
casting off one form and donning another...In its printed
form, thought is more imperishable than ever; it is
volatile, irresistible, and indestructible. It pervades the air...
Now she [electronic thought?] is a flock of birds, flies abroad to all the four winds of
heaven,
and occupies at once all the points of air and of space..."
Glenn Ralston
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Muhammad Betz wrote:
> Technology reduces the time and increases the space across which
> learning can take place. Peter Kandlbinder wrote in reply to Dennis Nelson
>
> >I couldn't disagree more. Learning will always take place within the
> >learner. Chris Jones
[snip]
> Stoll's pessimistic view of on-line educational quality is
> contrasted with a H.S. English teacher from New Jersey, who is using a
> complex multimedia version of Homer's Odyssey in his classroom.
> ...However, as Stoll asserts, is that type
> of activity to be compared with actually reading the text of the Odyssey,
> slowly, thoughtfully, interacting at the mental level?
[snip]
> Too much of the
> "learning" which takes place of the web can be likened to flipping through
> channels on cable TV. Are we leaving the ponderous, deep-thought learning
> in the past? If so, is that a problem? Maybe not.
> Muhammad Betz, Ph.D.
> Associate Professor in Educational Instruction & Leadership
>
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