From Kimberly Coast at http://maestracoast.blogspot.com/
I love Clay Shirky and not just because he has a cool name.
Clay Shirky is a visionary with a wonderful speaking style that is open and honest and he relates well with his audience. This reading was all about the future of technology in education. I included his video because it illustrates clearly coordinated group effort and he makes a clear argument for the benefit of that structure.
I agree that there will continue to be a need for some face to face interaction, even if it ends up being something more like a wimba session than a traditional classroom setting. I am not sure why I am so reluctant to believe that my students could handle an online course, maybe it is because I see what little effort they put into the traditional school day. I wonder if I put more things online for them to do independently, rather than talk about it in class if they would spend more time looking it over. One of those yes what I talk about will be on the test but you need to do the independent reading if you want to do more than just barely pass the test. This way my students that think they can zone out and pass (even though they don’t) now have to get online and check things out to be exposed to all the material.
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