Wednesday, September 9, 2009

The future of education, technology, and Bob

This just in, a live view of Bob at Allan Collins' lecture in the Graduate School of Education @ UC Berkeley, taking in the argument that technological advances in recent decades are antithetical to the traditional goals of schools. Can technology and schools be considered as independent variables in and of themselves? What about the role of culture and politics?

Bob?

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5 comments:

  1. UBSeptember 9, 2009 at 6:10 PM

    (OH. MY. GOD.) RAISED TO THE POWER INFINITY. MR. HUMAN COMPANION, THIS IS THE FUNNIEST AND CRAZIEST THING THAT HAS EVER HAPPENED IN TOLMAN. MORE POWER TO...ERR...BOB.

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  2. Jay LemkeSeptember 12, 2009 at 10:49 AM

    Well, thank God, or Bob! the traditional goals of schools are nothing we'd really want to have anything to do with, are they? Suppressing creativity, reproducing class privilege, inculcating a by-the-clock regime, teaching a curriculum whose usefulness has no empirical warrant, making prospective wage slaves, and BORING THE SHIT OUT OF MILLIONS OF INNOCENT PEOPLE!

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  3. DaveSeptember 13, 2009 at 9:18 AM

    I laughed my bob off reading these comments. Yeah, I suppose when you put the words "traditional", "goals", and "schools" together in a pot and start stirring, nothing tasty will result. Tho I wonder if there's anyplace where "traditional goals" doesn't sound repressive...?

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  4. JudySeptember 13, 2009 at 2:12 PM

    Where are the listeners? Looking at their computer screens?

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  5. DaveSeptember 13, 2009 at 9:12 PM

    There were relatively few screens there actually, and about 20 people. But everyone likes to keep a safe (?) distance away from the presenter. :(

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