Comments on: Access centered learning instead of place centered learning http://www.goldenswamp.com/2009/07/06/access-centered-learning-instead-of-place-centered-learning/ Emerging virtual education comments and links Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:33:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Michael B. Horn http://www.goldenswamp.com/2009/07/06/access-centered-learning-instead-of-place-centered-learning/comment-page-1/#comment-78391 Michael B. Horn Tue, 07 Jul 2009 05:37:10 +0000 http://www.goldenswamp.com/?p=2685#comment-78391 You're right -- and we do think alike on this. I think the possible answers you put forward are where I imagine the future should (and I hope will) go. I suspect some of the alternative schools we're seeing that serve drop-out students with ever more flexible hours and designs and so forth with a backbone of the online curricula might be a precursor to this. You’re right — and we do think alike on this. I think the possible answers you put forward are where I imagine the future should (and I hope will) go. I suspect some of the alternative schools we’re seeing that serve drop-out students with ever more flexible hours and designs and so forth with a backbone of the online curricula might be a precursor to this.

]]> By: Judy Breck http://www.goldenswamp.com/2009/07/06/access-centered-learning-instead-of-place-centered-learning/comment-page-1/#comment-78364 Judy Breck Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:12:46 +0000 http://www.goldenswamp.com/?p=2685#comment-78364 Thanks, Michael. "Red herring" is too strong, I suppose. What I am hoping, though, is that somehow the discussion can be shifted -- not continually going down the increasingly troubling and disconnect trail into the problems of schools (especially the awful schools minorities endure). I would like to go down the trail that starts with this question: Now that learning is centered in the internet and accessed personally by individual students, what can we add to complement that? What we now call schools might be eliminated as an answer by other complements: apprenticeships, daytime centers for sports and arts, etc. You and I seem to think alike on this, and I appreciated this opportunity to sharpen some language. Thanks, Michael. “Red herring” is too strong, I suppose. What I am hoping, though, is that somehow the discussion can be shifted — not continually going down the increasingly troubling and disconnect trail into the problems of schools (especially the awful schools minorities endure).

I would like to go down the trail that starts with this question: Now that learning is centered in the internet and accessed personally by individual students, what can we add to complement that? What we now call schools might be eliminated as an answer by other complements: apprenticeships, daytime centers for sports and arts, etc. You and I seem to think alike on this, and I appreciated this opportunity to sharpen some language.

]]> By: Michael B. Horn http://www.goldenswamp.com/2009/07/06/access-centered-learning-instead-of-place-centered-learning/comment-page-1/#comment-78361 Michael B. Horn Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:02:19 +0000 http://www.goldenswamp.com/?p=2685#comment-78361 I agree -- this is the point I tried to make in my actual debating remarks, which was to narrow the contention to saying that the real question was limiting learning to the bricks-and-mortar, which was detrimental as we need something that cuts across physical place and so forth. I agree with you--the platform for the learning job must shift. That said, a physical location--be it school or perhaps something very different--to do other jobs will likely remain a reality. I don't think I'm using my comment in the blog as a point to argue against your observation or to advance an argument, so I don't know that I would call it a red herring. Just an observation. I suppose there should be a better term, however, than hybrid learning because it has certain connotations that mean many different things to different people. I agree — this is the point I tried to make in my actual debating remarks, which was to narrow the contention to saying that the real question was limiting learning to the bricks-and-mortar, which was detrimental as we need something that cuts across physical place and so forth. I agree with you–the platform for the learning job must shift. That said, a physical location–be it school or perhaps something very different–to do other jobs will likely remain a reality. I don’t think I’m using my comment in the blog as a point to argue against your observation or to advance an argument, so I don’t know that I would call it a red herring. Just an observation. I suppose there should be a better term, however, than hybrid learning because it has certain connotations that mean many different things to different people.

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