(1) As a first counterproposal, suppose we decided not to be limited so
much by the 7 day week as the unit of time, and the chapter as the unit of
text, but took the amount of material to be read and metered it out with a
pace of X pages per day, the entire book therefore taking about 180/X days.
For X=3, the total time is 60 days. This allows us to spend more time
where JW has put more words, and where I suspect there is more substance.
And don't forget that we also must buidget time reading each other's
postings, and writing our own, if we are to have an authentic discussion!
Chapter one (8 days)
Chapter two (17 days)
Chapter three (12 days)
Chapter four (10 days)
Chapter five ( 13 days)
We might be concerned about the reading pace being too low so as not to
take priority in the day to day events. That would not be the case for me,
yet it is understandable that it could for others.
(2) A second counterproposal I'd like to offer is to design feedback into
our sensemaking system - should the discussants have the ability to appeal
to the discussion leaders to spend more time where they feel it is
necessary, then we would have an explicit mechanism to dive more intensely
into topics that are deserving, a more voluntary autodidactic mode than one
driven by the rhythm of the clock, and one more sensitive to the external
pressures we all feel.
(1) and (2) are options that could be taken separately or together.
Bill Barowy, Associate Professor
Technology in Education
Lesley College, 29 Everett Street, Cambridge, MA 02138-2790
Phone: 617-349-8168 / Fax: 617-349-8169
http://www.lesley.edu/faculty/wbarowy/Barowy.html
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