http://www.mazar.ca/blog/2007/07/17/power-control-and-instruction/ News from the Trenches of Librarianship Mon, 06 Sep 2010 01:40:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.mazar.ca/blog/2007/07/17/power-control-and-instruction/comment-page-1/#comment-93766 Rochelle Wed, 18 Jul 2007 02:59:59 +0000 http://www.mazar.ca/2007/07/17/power-control-and-instruction/#comment-93766 Yeah, I was thinking about that too...using certain control elements as training wheels to mimic the way things are in real life, just to ease students into it before you take them off. My experience thus far is that virtual worlds really stagger people when they first visit them. I go back and forth on the criticisms of folks recreating the real world in places like Second Life; people say doing so is profoundly uncreative and unhelpful, but there's something reassuring about understanding how to manage in a space because it looks so familiar. At least to start with. Yeah, I was thinking about that too…using certain control elements as training wheels to mimic the way things are in real life, just to ease students into it before you take them off. My experience thus far is that virtual worlds really stagger people when they first visit them. I go back and forth on the criticisms of folks recreating the real world in places like Second Life; people say doing so is profoundly uncreative and unhelpful, but there’s something reassuring about understanding how to manage in a space because it looks so familiar. At least to start with.

]]> http://www.mazar.ca/blog/2007/07/17/power-control-and-instruction/comment-page-1/#comment-93763 Shannon Wed, 18 Jul 2007 02:51:53 +0000 http://www.mazar.ca/2007/07/17/power-control-and-instruction/#comment-93763 The restrictions you may be a part of imposing in order to help develop students may have greater effects than you plan for. Perhaps that can be a comfort; that students will find not only the lesson that has been prepared for them - develop their expected skills, learn to think in the different ways they were challenged to - but also learn to consider wys of changing the mechanism, changing the construct within which they are to operate. I suppose that is what all devoted to teaching and knowledge management hope for: ongoing amplification of insight. The restrictions you may be a part of imposing in order to help develop students may have greater effects than you plan for. Perhaps that can be a comfort; that students will find not only the lesson that has been prepared for them – develop their expected skills, learn to think in the different ways they were challenged to – but also learn to consider wys of changing the mechanism, changing the construct within which they are to operate. I suppose that is what all devoted to teaching and knowledge management hope for: ongoing amplification of insight.

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