Warm Up Activity
Read "Two Rules for Communication." As we look at different issues that arise in educational settings when how might what the author tells us in this article come into play? Post your thoughts on the discussion board under Our Warm up.
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Read the following quotations and comment on them in the Our Warm up thread on the class discussion board.
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What are the key messages the authors are communicating? |
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How might we use the messages from these quotations as we consider issues of learning with computers? |
| "Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) |
| "The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones that ramify...into every corner of our minds." (John Maynard Keynes) |
| "If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it." (S. I. Hayakawa) |
| "What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup." (Boris Pasternak) |
| "An innovation is a transformation of practice in a community. It is not the same as the invention of a new idea or object. The real work of innovation is in the transformation of practice. In this definition, community can be small, as in a workgroup, or large as in the whole world. A transformation of practice in the community won't happen unless the new practice generates more value to the members than the old. Value may not be economic; it may be pride, reputation, health, safety, freedom. Many innovations were preceded or enabled by inventions; but many innovations occurred without a significant invention." (Peter Denning. ACM Ubiquity, 26 Apr 2004) |
| "One sees great things from the valley, only small things from the peak." (G. K. Chesterton) |
| "The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -- it is the illusion of knowledge." (Daniel J. Boorstin) |
| "Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other." (Oliver Wendell Holmes) |
| "The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution." (Bertrand Russell) |
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