Re: FW: Technologies and Their Effect on Learning as a Biological Process

Mary Bryson (brys who-is-at unixg.ubc.ca)
Tue, 12 Oct 1999 10:26:39 -0700

>FYI

>>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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