Greetings Economists, On Oct 27, 2007, at 8:17 AM, Jim Devine wrote:
My idea is that grades should be multidimensional, following Gardner's 7-fold way. Note: I see the main role of grades as being communicating with students (such things as "do you really want to major in Econ?") rather than as a reward/punishment system.
Doyle; Well I would put this as a question of the 'interactivity' of the knowledge production. In that light I think you miss the developments of the culture since this sort of teacher interaction arose in the sixties. I'll give an example; you write; Working at a liberal arts college, I think that we should reject G's "bodily-kinesthetic intelligence" because that's not what this place is about. Doyle; The most lively area of knowledge production right now is the Google Earth access to unified satellite visual maps of the planet. This means information with a bodily-kinesthetic intelligence could come to the fore. Most education now cannot adequately capture such information due to the tied to the desk nature of information production. However, especially visual information can be tied to location, and therefore the human brains ability to be in the world is being 'advanced' or made more explicit culturally. thanks, Doyle Saylor
