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May 23, 2003
Sebastian begins by wondering if the usual educational assumption that learning is done to us by experts helps us become truly educated. He refers to some psychological theories of the 1950s that look to conversation as the way in which we build up an understanding of our self and world. (Sorry to be vague but I had a little incident and had to reboot.) Could conversation, he wonders, be a key to education? Now he makes the transition to web publishing and weblogs as a "conversational learning tool." These give us the ability to reflect upon our public representations. There isn't a lot of data about this yet, he says. Think of personal web publishing networks as "conversational learning environments for self-organized learners." [Cool idea. And I like the recasting of education as conversation. Of course.] Posted
by D. Weinberger at May 23, 2003 11:41 AM
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That is cool, and that actually describes exactly why I blog. On "recasting" education in those terms, there's nothing new under the sun: It's Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed all over again.
Posted by: iggy (cbrayton) | May 24, 2003 12:33 AM
This encourages me in my not-so-tongue-in-cheek idea about the "Google Writing and Blogging Project" where adult bloggers would mentor younger bloggers in writing skills.
The blogging conversation between experienced writer and student would be more powerful than the quick red-pencil notes a student typically receives on a paper-and-pen essay.
http://dave_blog.blogspot.com/?/2003_04_01_dave_blog_archive.html#93322225
Posted by: Dave (C&E) Rogers | May 24, 2003 03:01 PM
I'm studying languages at a university in Colombia, My research titles
"Self-teaching as a process for learning a foreign language" the people who have
been applied this process to be self-taughts in learning English have shown a
real progress, besides they say they have learned more by themselves than
studying in any institute.
I e-mail you with the hope of getting some information that helps me to support
my thesis. I have not found enough information about autodidactism. And there is
a confusion among a lot of terms:
-Self-directed learning
-Autodidaxy, autodidactism
-Self-teaching
and some others.
PLEASE IF YOU CAN HELP ME WITH SOME INFORMATION I WILL THANK YOU A LOT.
I FORGOT TO TELL YOU THAT I AM AN AUTODIDACT OF THE LANGUAGES.
Posted by: miguel Angel Nùñez | August 19, 2004 01:39 PM