Posted by Web 2.0/education guru David Warlick on this comment thread:
The important question is, “How do we help students to become information artisans, within an education governance that seems interested only in making students information sponges, who merely recite what they’ve learned, when squeezed?”
Indeed. I’m getting pretty tired myself of being the "squeezer" when I see my students capable of doing so much more.
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rightwingprof // 6 August 2006 at 9:16 am
It seems rather pointless to try to make them “information artisans” until they know something. IOW, they have to be sponges first.
Right Wing Nation » Blog Archive » Reality Again Intrudes On Education // 6 August 2006 at 12:54 pm
[...] While at Casting Out Nines, I saw a reference to an article by one David Warlick, and the phrase “information artisans” (shudder) caught my eye, so I decided to check it out. Here is the relevant section: [...]
aredden // 20 August 2006 at 12:14 am
So, rightwingprof thinks that our students should be sponges. I wonder, what does he think happens when we squeeze them and all that information they soaked up for the test is gone?
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