While I have found great value in the blogging we have done this semester, this statement from Steve Anderson and Anne Balsamo really resonated with me:
"The uneasy hybridization seen in Web cast lectures and audience-response clickers demonstrates what is, in our view, a limited approach to integrating technology into education. Even some of the most promising contemporary technologies that merge the advantages of networked communities with social software, such as blogs and wikis, may in some cases simply function as high-tech updates of timeworn practices, such as classroom journaling and shared notetaking. Instead, we advocate a model that is genuinely organic in conception, centered on the development of pedagogical strategies that are inextricably fused with the technologies and social practices familiar to students of the born digital generation" (255).
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Interesting quote, Marla.
I can kind of see that, too. On one hand, we are only responding to each other in different ways. But, I would like to hope that we have grown at least a bit, educationally. I mean, I think that we are asking students to go beyond and critically engage in new worlds. While this may be similar to what we were asked to do as students back in the day, I think that in some sense it is different. That we have grown to realize that different students do not necessarily connect by writing in longhand and taking notes and memorizing.
But, this could go back to my hope for the greater good.
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