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- From: 21602RA@MSU.BITNET (Remi_B.Aworuwa)
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.edtech
- Subject: Re: Education & Virtual Reality
- Message-ID: <EDTECH%92110517304272@OHSTVMA.ACS.OHIO-STATE.EDU>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 22:28:26 GMT
- Sender: "EDTECH - Educational Technology" <EDTECH@OHSTVMA.BITNET>
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- Approved: NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
- Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
- Approved-By: "EDTECH Moderator" <21765EDT@MSU.BITNET>
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- This is in response to Mark Whitman's statement about "teachers becoming
- increasingly more like barriers to students who can learn more by being placed
- directly in contacts with experiences and knowledge such as can be conveyed
- through VR". I ask Mark, where did you learn teachers are becoming
- increasingly more like barriers to students' learning? Did you ask the
- students themselves or did you just assume this is the case? I am currently
- doing a study about faculty's use of computers in their teaching, which
- involve talking to students. What I hear from such students contradict what
- you said about teachers. The students that I talked to see their teachers as
- very much part of their learning from technology. They don't see the teachers
- being replaced by technology any time at all. Neither are they willing to
- forgo the personal touch that their professors bring into teaching. In fact,
- they seem to suggest that without the teachers mediating, they may not learn
- much from technology, even if they learn at all. I agree with you that
- teachers' roles are changing, and may not be the transmitter of all knowledge
- to students. They still play the crucial role of bridging students and sources
- of knowledge. I think rather than seeing teachers as barriers to students'
- learning, we should praise the courage of the teachers who are struggling with
- new technologies that they are bombarded with and with which they are doing
- their best in order to equip their students for the information age. We should
- praise and encourage them as they are trying to redefine their roles and still
- give their best to their students and their disciplines. Thank you/Remi
- Aworuwa(21602RA@MSU.BITNET)
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