Mark Berthelemy addresses one my key concerns about the proliferation of rapid elearning materials.
I have seen some pretty dire PowerPoint presentations posing as learning materials in my lifetime. The thought of these perpetrators authors - being able to sex these things up and get away with inflicting them on learners for even longer...
Silk purse, anyone?
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
If I had a hammer...
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Kia Ora Karyn.
They said the same sort of things when Over-head projectors came out and there was a wave of enthusiasm over how these devices could be used to pour the learning into the orifices of the learners heads.
I wonder what sort of discussions were going around when blackboard and chalk was a new pedagogical device.
Y’know I learnt recently that an artist in New Zealand was making wonderful pieces of art using a chain-saw on pine logs. Okay, whatever happened to the hammer and chisel? No matter! It’s not the tools, but how they are used that’s important.
Ka kite
from Middle-earth
"It’s not the tools, but how they are used that’s important."
You make a good point, my middle-earth friend!
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