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13.16.7 :-) Shyamala
Hello, Thomas,
You say:
Maybe all just shout out of the window.
With all due respects, you asked for this when you threatened in your debate posting that the person
with minimumcontribution will have to summarize this debate. God
forbid that should be me.
This debate is very revealing in the aspect of what can happen with Autonomy without structure, to Dialog!
You say:
While in traditional debates the whole line of argument impinges on what you want to say, here it is
(at best) only the last message which you will relate to in your
answer. A cacophony of voices, since all can speak at the same time! A process without memory since
it is at best the last message I take into account.
Peters notes (Peters, 1999, pg14) that "They (the students) must internalize the greatly changed
weighting of the internaland external knowledge stores, and make the
best use of them for their learning processes. It is important here todevelop and optimize stategies
and routines for these learning activities. The reason for this is that
'educationincreasingly means a symbiosis of biological and artificial memories' (Tiffin & Rajasingham
1995, 43)."
So I cannot agree that this debate is a process without memory. While it may be lacking in organized
presentation, thecontent is nothing to be scoffed at. On the
contrary, if a similar debate were to occur face to face...extending into its 5thay today, there would
have been consequences.
Audience would have thinned, speakers would have lost interest and there would be no-shows and the whole
exercisewould have flopped.
As for not knowing who is speaking to whom, if there had been a hundred-plus presentations, even F2F
one can lose track of who said what.
The difference again is retrieval....I can do it online, you can't F2F...therefore, online is better!
Regards,
Shyamala.
Reference:
Peters, O. (1991). A pedagogical model for virtual learning space. German version first published in:
"Grunlagen der Weiterbildung: Praishilfen". Weinheim: Luchterhand,
1999). Retrieved on 2/16/02 from http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/zef/ede/found/peters99.htm
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