I’m reading Teaching Naked at the moment for a book group, Twitter chat, who knows what-rhizo thing with Autumm and some others. I like it. Here’s Bowen’s assessment of the supposed revolution caused by the internet age:
The point here is not that online learning is better, but just that it is here (9)
Exactly. For the most part it is the same old content repackaged in a fancy new wrapper.
Content, huh? #rhizo15 pals will know what I think of that, so it’s good to see Bowen saying that:
It is at best a paradox, at worst appalling, that although we say we want to develop critical thinking skills, we structure most of higher education around delivery of content (20)
Right – yeah? Technology can offer “an abundance of content”, as Bowen says (24), but it can do so much more than that if used well.
Technology also offers myriad new learning environments, multiple points of entry to every concept … (24)
Hey, rhizo15 – are you getting this? Sounds a bit rhizomatic, huh?
… in an age where information is abundant, quality and specificity of of information have become increasingly important
So if we use tech to build courses that are less about delivering content and more about helping people to assess the information that is out there … but you guys know this already, right?
Next time: how Bowen thinks apps are a metaphor for how education needs to change.
(note: if you are writing a post called “teaching naked” do not use that phrase to google for an image to accompany that post, eek!)
Lol re googling image (intuitive; good luck w spam comments on this post, too!)
Oh, dear, I hope not 🙁
Ordered the book at ABE Books and also through the local library. Came in at the library first and when I picked it up the clerk gave me a look-over and asked which school I taught at. Told her we only teach naked in the summer.
I just spat my tea all over the laptop when I read that!
I spat noodles.
When you are so far ahead of the curve you can see your own bum it’s hard to know what to wear.
Mine just arrived from Amazon . . .
Excellent 🙂
Is everyone reading a hard copy?
My copy is dated 2012 on inter-library loan from U of Calgary. The idea that distributed learning has been in need of a reinvention of teaching technique has been pushed for a few years now by people like Lisa Lane at Mira Costa College in California http://lisahistory.net/potcertbackup/potcert12syllabus.htm and Marion Waite at Oxford Brooks http://www.education.ox.ac.uk/about-us/directory/marion-waite/ to name just two.
Takes a while to get this stuff going but it may be that Bowen was the first publish and that’s important.