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

Mary Bryson (brys who-is-at unixg.ubc.ca)
Thu, 14 Oct 1999 23:46:12 -0700

>mb wrote: >yeah, you can't think without one!
>
Paul wrote: >The problem, apparently, is that having one is not thereby a
guarantee that
>thinking will occur -
>
>mb wrote:> Huh? Who or what has one and doesn't think? Is there more to
>this than at first blush?
I thought this was a socio-
CULTURAL list. So what on earth - do brains have with culture?

the 'can of worms" alarm just went off

i better get back to my "I don't believe in development" talk that I have
to give on Tuesday.
and to think i thought it was a no brainer!

mb

To alter efficacy-based futility requires development of competencies and
expectations of personal effectiveness. By contrast, to change
outcome-based futility necessitates changes in prevailing environmental
contingencies that restore the instrumental value of the competencies
people already possess. Bandura-- 1977

Dr. Mary Bryson, Associate Professor,
Faculty of Education, UBC
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