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17 Nov 09

Half an Hour: Free Learning and Control Learning: On the So-Called Failure of Constructivist, Discovery, Problem-Based, Experiential, and Inquiry-Based Teaching

And what’s important about Polanyi’s work is that he says, the bulk of our knowledge, even our conceptual knowledge, is ineffable. That means it cannot be represented in words, which means that a statement (which is a theory) is not a good expression of that knowledge, and that a law is not a good expression of that knowledge.

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05 Apr 09

“It” | EdTechTrek

  • ools are a moving target. I say this because the tools represent the potential of something larger, much more important, much more significant.
  • There have been major problems with quantifying positive impacts of the investment of computer technologies in K-12 schooling
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11 Mar 09

P2P Foundation » Blog Archive » Book of the Week: Chet Bowers: are computers an anti-commons?

  • This results in the inability to recognize when different aspects of the cultural commons– such as civil liberties, the knowledge of how to farm without relying upon pesticides and other chemicals, the grass lands and marshes that disappear under the pressure of developers, mentors who are dying off without having passed their knowledge and skills on to the younger generation, etc.—are being enclosed.
  • often claim that computers make it possible for constructivist learning to occur
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06 May 08

Reforming the Hidden Curriculum

  • However, teachers, schools and systems are having great difficulty resolving some of the contradictions between these principles and practices on the one hand, and pressures of accountability and traditional school culture on the other.
  • Thompson and Zeuli (1999, pp. 345-6), for example, observe that perhaps the most striking thing about teachers' efforts to learn and put into practice current reform ideas is that 'it is possible - indeed, fairly common - to get a great deal right and still miss the point… of the reforms'.
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