Chris Jones (C.R.Jones1@livjm.ac.uk)
Tue, 01 Dec 1998 21:00:04 +0000
From: Chris Jones <C.R.Jones1@livjm.ac.uk> Subject: Re: [ifets] Technology Vs. Learning Date: Tue, 01 Dec 1998 21:00:04 +0000
On Tue, 1 Dec 1998 19:03:50 +0000 Martin Owen <t.m.owen@bangor.ac.uk>
wrote:
> I am interested ........., particulaly in
> Collins, Brown and Duguid's formulation of cognitive apprenticeship.
I have some problems with the version of situation they use similar to
those noted by Macbeth. That is that all learning is situated in one
way or another rather than some learning being more situated than
another.
> We live in a world of major changes...... where it is beneficial to be
> flexible, multi-skilled and skilled in learning new skills rather than
> having narrow strengths.
> Therefore is is ever more important to situate learning in its social
> context rather than reifying it to some abstract structure (like "the
> roots",or, dare I say it "schools").
I think this exemplifies the point I am making. What exactly makes
schools 'abstract'. The ones I have been into are all too real ;-{).
I have also got some doubts about the whole flexible, multi-skilled,
change approach. This seems like less a description than a 'moral'
invocation. We must do these things because the world makes us.
I would want to advocate first of all making an adequate description.
How is the world changing and in just what ways? In education what are
the situations as understood by the participants rather than
educational analysts?
Too often when we discuss educational technology there is an implicit
idea that the technology is driving us.
Chris
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Chris Jones
C.R.Jones1@livjm.ac.uk
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