Day: February 2, 2011

Dangers of one- dimensional education

Hi.  I’m Bob.  I’ll be sitting in for Jean this week in the blog.  Many years ago, in another life, I earned my living for awhile teaching people how to fly.  There was an inside joke among flight instructors that went something like this: “You can’t really teach people to fly.  You just keep the airplane from crashing while the students teach themselves to fly.”

Flash forward forty years now and read this article: http://campustechnology.com/Articles/2011/01/19/The-Myth-of-eLearning.aspx?Page=1

So what do my little joke and this article have to do with one another?  And what do they each have to do with our efforts here?  In my opinion, we all have a strong tendency to Read more