In my relatively short time in the consulting world, I’ve unfortunately already encountered the stalwart of entrenched, outmoded school policy that effectively undermines attempts by teachers, however well-intentioned, to pursue a pedagogy centered on increasing media literacy. Far from being a tech evangelist, I do think thoughtful uses of technology (esp. in the classroom) can [...]
Categories: education, technology
Tagged: education, learning, media literacy, research, technology
Henry Jenkins of MIT’s Comparative Media Lab discusses how many of our students today are being de-skilled as they enter schools where the digital tools they are using outside of the school environment are invalidated. Not only are many critical online resources blocked by crude filters but “[teachers] tell kids again and again that what [...]
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Tagged: education, jenkins, learning, McLuhan, media, technology
From Beyond Culture
Citing Washburn (1973) on the importance of play in learning
“Through play (emotional, repetitious, from within) children prepare for the adult life of their culture. Separation of education from life…is new in the history of primates. In the American school there is no view of adult life…In schools discipline is substituted for the internal [...]
Categories: anthropology, education, psychology
Tagged: anthropology, bureaucracy, culture, education, edward t hall, learning, psychology