thinking about education
I just finished reading Bruner’s 1996 book, The Culture of Education. In Bruner’s discussion of the narrative mode of thought, I found some significant connections with Nye’s first chapter of Technology Matters.
Nye relates tool use to narrative. Deciding to use a tool is part of a story. There is a problem and a solution that [...]
A Contextual Note: I will be taking an educational technology research seminar this fall. The text is Technology Matters: Questions to Live With by Davide E. Nye. Since the topics are of general interest, I thought I would aid my own learning by blogging about each chapter. The question which has been posed to us [...]
Studying for comps and reviewing EPPL 604: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives in Education. We looked at the perceptions and attitudes of those who work in arts or aesthetics disciplines. Here’s the quote from the first page:
“Teaching may be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless someone buys. We should ridicule a merchant who said that [...]