Subject: [IFETS-DISCUSSION:4126] Re: IFETS-DISCUSSION digest 482
From: kefyalew mandefrot (mandefro5@ca.inter.net)
Date: Wed 06 Nov 2002 - 21:42:13 MET
From: "kefyalew mandefrot" <mandefro5@ca.inter.net> Subject: [IFETS-DISCUSSION:4126] Re: IFETS-DISCUSSION digest 482 Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 09:42:13 +1300
I found the issue around PLOT to be more about a new technology rather than
a new learner having the first encounter with learning technologies so far
affordable. The human side of PLOT, the teacher and the student, the
emergent problems that only be visible after its installation, and the need
for technical and pedagogic assistant seem to be given a minor attention.
It is not new software or newer, faster machines but issue in educational
technology is to bring forward issues related to participants in learning
valuing others concern. to make computing easy, possible and achievable we
need to focus on how a software can frustrate or encourage a teachers to
take the first move.For this we need to check research in social
informatics and the work of Phil Agre, Andrew Feenberg, just to mention a
few.For whom computing is cheaper, and for whom PLOT is easy-to-learn- and
easy-to-use need to be clarified.
Second there is no research that indicates the validity of the learning
community learning from business. In this context, it educative to check
school reform literature that has minimized educational research and simply
focused on importing management research to schools.
Ken Mandefrot
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