Subject: Re: This is interaction!!
From: Ania Lian (ania@lingua.arts.uq.edu.au)
Date: Tue 25 Jan 2000 - 06:34:33 MET
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 15:34:33 +1000 (EST) From: Ania Lian <ania@lingua.arts.uq.edu.au> Subject: Re: This is interaction!!
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On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Muhammad Betz wrote:
> Harris' concept of
> telecomputing activities encourages interaction of students with the
> Internet.
I suppose so there is also a place for teaching people how to
use other resources like TV or radio, or even conversation or books. But
how many of us teach it? I think we should. But how and why this way?
Let me put my concerns differently. I have no problem with any exercises
or any inventions produced. What interests me are the goals, or more
exactly the practical applications of inventions, the things that people
see as worthwhile about the inventions or exercises. How do we know what
we do in teaching is what we think we do and how do we know this is a good
thing?
I can see reasons why people may want to learn to use internet but
I am not sure whether when teaching to use teh internet we do not in fact
teach other things which an uncritical eye will overlook?
My comments about power are simple: what justifies our beliefs about
appropriacy of our design/models/feedback made available?
As for a teacher as an architect, one has to rmember that an architect
knows, has a concept, of things s/he want to see. Do we think that tecaher
as an architect therefore is a good thing? Maybe it is, but it has to be
articulated as this is not obvious.
As for traditional methods, well I do not even know what it means. I do
not think that 20-50 years ago people taught everything the same way. I
think that good teaching does not require a 5 gigabyte hard-drive. So I am
not sure whether what is understood as traditional is not simply an
overproduction of a jargon which makes a claim to legitimacy
through strategies which declare the past uniform and the same,
everywhere (cf. Global Awards i.e. American Awards i.e. Hollywood Awards
i.e. Behind closed doors of closed friends ie. I say you do = that's how
systems of values are produced).
Ania Lian
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