Submitted by Judi Levy (not verified) on August 20, 2007 - 20:46.
So this article by Will Richardson poses the question can one return to the type of traditional arithmetic learning environment when we have now broken down it's wall and all the students are running around learning for themselves, exponentially?
I disagree with his remark that learning is scarce. Certainly, even 42 years ago when I started college without the benefit of the Internet, it would have been difficult to consume all of the knowledge. We are really speaking of getting our own ideas read, with immediate response. I'm not quite sure I care whether all those one billion readers need to be my audience. I think I can choose well-qualified readers on my own. The Wikipedia online encylopedia is information that may be added onto by many people who have the ability to place erroneous material on the web. That is not adding to the sum total of human knowledge.
So we must be careful, but our carefullness must have elasticity. We should be wise in our Internet contacts, and teach our students to sift through the Internet's littered highway, lest we fall prey to our own eagerness to learn in our hast to become Life-Long-Learners.
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Submitted by Judi Levy (not verified) on August 20, 2007 - 20:46.
So this article by Will Richardson poses the question can one return to the type of traditional arithmetic learning environment when we have now broken down it's wall and all the students are running around learning for themselves, exponentially?
I disagree with his remark that learning is scarce. Certainly, even 42 years ago when I started college without the benefit of the Internet, it would have been difficult to consume all of the knowledge. We are really speaking of getting our own ideas read, with immediate response. I'm not quite sure I care whether all those one billion readers need to be my audience. I think I can choose well-qualified readers on my own. The Wikipedia online encylopedia is information that may be added onto by many people who have the ability to place erroneous material on the web. That is not adding to the sum total of human knowledge.
So we must be careful, but our carefullness must have elasticity. We should be wise in our Internet contacts, and teach our students to sift through the Internet's littered highway, lest we fall prey to our own eagerness to learn in our hast to become Life-Long-Learners.