>>Pedagogies, and technologies in particular, tend to be evaluated on their
>>ability to adequately and effectively transmit information.
oh yeah?
A great deal
>>of experiential evidence points, however, to the probability, if not the
>>certainty, that real learning involves something beyond the reception of
>>information.
you don't say...
This issue is intended to examine the position that
>>learning takes place in the brain of the learner, and that pedagogies and
>>technologies should be designed and evaluated on the basis of the effect
>>they have on student brains.
hmmm... I wonder about the likelihood of Ethics committees approving
post-hoc autopsies on students to examine brain tissues?
do students have brains?
IS THIS FOR REAL?
i hope not!
mb
Dr. Mary Bryson, Associate Professor,
Faculty of Education, UBC
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Principal Co-Investigator: GenTech Project
http://www.educ.sfu.ca/gentech/