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?
Kia Ora Karyn.
ReplyDeleteThey 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."
ReplyDeleteYou make a good point, my middle-earth friend!