Whewee Arlo, thanks a lot for your commentary. You gave me a lot to follow up on - first I'm gonna look up "phylogenetic" and then start from there (and heck, I got no problem with embedded parens - usta code (before I became a woodcutter)) But I liked the snippets you pulled out; same ones I read and wanted to show everybody.
> > On a related point, here is an except from David Weinberger's article > "Technology as a metaphor" > > "Societies tend to understand what it is to be human in terms of the > technology they use every day. For example, when mechanical clocks were > invented, the universe started looking like a grand clockwork. When steam > engines transformed industry, we started understanding our psyches in terms > of various pressures, and we started to talk about "venting." In the age of > computers, we have inputs, process information, and produce outputs." > (Weinberger) And I'd add Pirsig's software/hardware metaphor of consciousness to the list. > > The modern "technology used every day" is networks, the Internet and the > WWW. Educational practices are also informed by this perspective, which in > turn draws heavily from the economic modes of production as well. During the > era of Fordist production, school rooms were neatly organized rows with > precise manuals for when and how the students (factory workers) could act, > the teacher (foreman) had his rules as well, and "learning" was tidied up > into very organized assembly lines of controlled activity. Nowadays, in the > "network" paradigm, the move is open classrooms, with students > (co-participants) sitting a circle of open and unbounded participation with > the teacher (also a co-participant), and "learning" is exploratory and messy > and "guided" but not "directed". I should point out that this is hardly > entirely "new", its actually a partial "retrogressive" return (love > redundancies) to the open school rooms of pre-Fordist agrarian classrooms. > I agree with you and Gatto. In fact, he came and talked to our home study parents council some 15 years ago and I got to drill him in person. John ------------ The self is a point along a dynamic continuum, evolving toward Quality by Choice. ------------ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
