Chris, I agree that there is value in being able to capture a
discussion of a topic with a person who would not otherwise be
available to be in the classroom of everyone who might want them to
be there, just as there is value in being able to use videos and
films that are able to demonstrate something that would be nearly
impossible to present in the ordinary classroom. In fact, your
podcasts are the very operational definition of being able to use the
words of others when they are more convenient for use in the
classroom than requiring the students to be at a specific place at a
specific time which is unrelated to the normal class schedule.
I have listen to most of your podcasts and want to thank you for the
work that you have done.
Bob W
On 10 Jul 2007, at 10:13, Christopher D. Green wrote:
Gary,
On the contrary, my experience is that most (though not all)
professors nearly-automatically reject most new technology as being
mere "fluff" until they are dragged there kicking and screaming by
their own students. Articles like this one only reinforce their
seemingly-natural (not to mention ironic) resistance to learn
anything new (outside of their narrow field of research). Now, if
what you object to is professors simply converting their classroom
lectures into "podcasts" (read: into mp3 files that could be loaded
on to one's mp3 player) that obviously has limited pedagogical
value, but it also hardly expends to potential of podcasting.
If you're coming to SF for APA, I invite you to my talk "Revenge of
the MP3 player: Podcasting for the Classroom." Or you can just go
to the site for my podcast series, "This Week in the History of
Psychology" (http://www.yorku.ca/christo/podcasts/ ). Ask yourself
whether I could have gotten those 27 historians of psychology to
physically parade through my classroom over the course of the term,
and whether it is valuable to have students hear what these folks
have to say directly from their own mouths, rather than simply
having them read the simplified, tenderized, homogenized accounts
typically provided by textbooks.
Regards,
Chris
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