Re: "Telling isn't teaching"

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Paul Pavlik (pavlik@telusplanet.net)
Sat, 8 Sep 2001 19:43:16 -0600 

From: "Paul Pavlik" <pavlik@telusplanet.net>
Subject: Re:      "Telling isn't teaching"
Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 19:43:16 -0600

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From: Raymond Lewis <raylewis@sp.edu.sg>

Thanks for you well written and succinct summary. It ties in with a new
learning//knowledge paradigm for the 21st century
very well.

Subject: "Telling isn't teaching"

> "If I'm not talking am I teaching?"
>
> Unfortunately many practitioners fall into the trap of getting carried
away
> with their own enthusiasm

Which of course for a new breed of administrators now includes computers.
Now we have people who think that unless a student is on a 'system', and
that system is tied to 'expert tutors' and then 'tested' it is not
education.

> How refreshing to look at the work of Seymore Papert and the
> connectedfamily.com site. I am an advocate of enjoyable and relevant
> active learning,

I think it is the only kind that really works Ray.

Paul - in northern Alberta -

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