David Knowles sent me this link today. This is what we've been saying all along, so most of it is preaching to the choir. The key piece I see in it is that his list of critical technology includes an LMS!
Here's the quote: Device-agnostic technology that provides access to the Internet and appropriate Learning Management Systems, coupled with a committed teacher, is often all that is needed to help students become powerful consumers and producers of knowledge.
Interesting website -- details seem elusive, though. This particular page mentions an author "Chris Dede" who I think is the same author Brenda sent me an article by that she found very useful.
The long awaited book where social anthropologist Jean Lave shares her research study from Liberia, of tailor boy apprenticeship (where they learn not from their master directly, but from being inlcuded in everyday chores and observing their peer apprentices, a litte more advanced than themselves). JeanLve spent considerable time on location doing this study. In 2000 she was a guest teacher at the University of Copenhagen where I had the pleasure to follow a dozen lectures. With my study companion's courage, we were allowed to have a one hour long conversation with Jean Lave, planned as an interview but never published, to my regret.
The book can be purchased as an e-book for 30 days, at the reasonable price of $6, or full price $27 (same as in print).
"Write every day" is fabulous advice. But, how do you actually do it? That was my question for a long time before I finally convinced myself to give it a try.
Disney, Militarization and the National Security State After 9/11
Tuesday 23 August 2011
by: Henry A. Giroux and Grace Pollock, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. | Book Excerpt
I love reading Giroux (who wrote one of the chapters). He is so smart and sees such interesting perspectives and (but) as one of my professors who was a classmate of his noted - and he knows it.
This looks like a really interesting book, Barb. Thanks for adding it. I think I will order it - if it doesn't cost hundreds of dollars!
Not sure what she meant at the end about "there is no escape" once you begin teaching and learning online??
But agree with the main point about how teaching and learning is tied to economics (resources) and purpose.
And, Barb, thanks because I became a member in the Higher Ed Guardian.
Excellent blog post about how to deal with comments for articles submitted to peer reviewed journals. Tucking this away for the day when we start writing these things.
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