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23 Jul 09

'Teach Naked' Effort Strips Computers From Classrooms - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education

I like how Bowen is questioning the use of tech for tech's sake. This further shows how it's not about the technology, but about the teaching.

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  • Here's the kicker, though: The biggest resistance to Mr. Bowen's ideas has come from students, some of whom have groused about taking a more active role during those 50-minute class periods.
    • Isn't this always the case? Students are very good at schooly things. Remove the standard lecture and what do they have to do? Think, work, be engaged, be active. Great stuff. - on 2009-07-23
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  • Introduce issues of debate within the discipline and get the students to weigh in based on the knowledge they have from those lecture podcasts, Mr. Bowen says.
    • How would the teaching staff react to this in your school/college? Could this be done in any discipline or just the humanities? - on 2009-07-23
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