Alfred Bork wrote: >I could not care less about the status quo or influence. > >My goal is to improve learning in the world, including literacy, by an order >of magnitude. It can be done, but not if intelligent people jump on ANY new >bandwagon that appears. We need to focus our energies and insist on >empirical information, not vague mostly emotional personal experiences and >arguments. Only one in ten people in the world has internet access, and it >is often marginal at best, No software on the current Internet will solve >the massive problem of adult literacy > > > I agree with part of what you are saying. Where I differ is the whole 'bandwagon' issue. I have problems with bandwagons - more specifically, I have a problem with the rebranding and repackaging of of the same things for people to sell items. I see it almost every day with 'Collective Intelligence' being rebranded. It's nauseating.
I believe that, by the very nature of 'intelligent', intelligent people don't jump on *any* new bandwagon that appears. To say otherwise says that intelligent people cannot discern between useful and non-useful things - and that's contradictory to the accepted use of the word intelligent. >I will be happy to send the outline of my new book, and other information, >to interested people. Please write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . It proposes to solve >the 'education for all' problem with adaptive learning. > > Oddly enough, Adaptive Learning is what most autodidacts do. In the context of Wiki usage, adaptive learning is inherent. Further, the learning environment expands at a rate consistent with the ability of the students and instructors. Frankly, the Wiki is a technology that allows people to take advantage of adaptive learning on a multi-tiered level - the individual, the group (or 'class'), the society and perhaps even the species. Because it's never been called adaptive learning doesn't mean that it isn't. If your book covers the new technology bandwagons that *intelligent* people are jumping on, and has rational discussion on the pros and cons, I will buy it. Really. -- Taran Rampersad [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxgazette.com http://www.a42.com http://www.worldchanging.com http://www.knowprose.com http://www.easylum.net "Criticize by creating." — Michelangelo _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
