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I believe in a blend of teaching. You need to have a facilitator but one who enhances the learning using whatever technology is relevant. "They" are trying to take pilots out of planes but is it a good idea? Leaving any consideration about where and why the ordinance is falling in the morality of a machine. If parents were truly involved in the learning process now, our jobs would be much easier. What happened to seeing that a student is struggling, the puzzled look on the face, or knowing that emotional or other problems are at work. Technology doesn't offer answers to these situations. We have removed too much humanity already. Again, I believe a mixture is a corret path. Infusing technology for technology sake isn't going to get us to the goal that we want to achieve. Just offering a perspecitve as there are few totally right or wrong answers.
As I read the comments from Neil and Phil,i understand both sides of this argument. I beleive we need both podcasts and traditional lectures ,
Irrelevant. With Class.com et. al., teachers as we know and hate them are on the precipice of extinction. We are replaced already, only delayed by the lack of taxes to fully fund the transition to technological virtual-classrooms. Moreover, it's "As you Like It", or rather, as society goes. Regardless of whether research shows that we are or aren't necessary to facilitate learning, students THINK they only need technology. That was all that need happen, for them to believe the people are unnecessary. (Well, perhaps except for their pals on the matrix.) Don't be fooled, the only "ones" needed in the educational mix currently, are the techies & text publishers. Teachers are expendable. Mom can facilitate the distance learning right at the kitchen table. They don't need us.
I remember one of the best college classes I took, way back in 1973. My college chemistry class entailed two sessions a week in the AV lab with slides and 4 button (real buttons!!) answer box attached to a tape recorder. All lectures were delivered in this format, with questions sprinkled throughout to ensure I was paying attention to the information. Once a week we had a 2 hour lab with an actual professor! The college spent their human capital on the most important aspect of the class and automated the lesser. I was very successful in this class, learned a LOT and most of all, enjoyed it immensely. I took other traditional science courses in both high school and college. Lectures were delivered -- no interaction, no check for understanding. I sat and listened and I either got it or not. The human in the front of the room actually diminished learning in many cases.
In today's world, with all the technology available to keep kids interested, it is inconceivable that we would still subject students to lectures. So why do we have them? Because it is the lazy way to teach. It requires the least amount of work. The fact that is produces poor results, flies in the face of all learning theory and current brain research seems to make no difference.
Lectures? Do away with them completely and use technology to replace them with highly interactive, multimedia modules. Who will lead this effort? The US Dept of Education should lead a determined effort to produce these and make them widely available to teachers at no cost. Using an open source project development model and paying for work through mini-grants (similar to the mini-loan programs in third world countries) we could build out complete curriculums in very short time frames. It is time for educators to start learning from the Open Source movement!
As Jenkins might suggest, this is a perfect time to think "convergence culture." This is more of a both/and opportunity than an either/or decision.
Podcasts should supplement lectures. Students still need to have some material delivered by a teacher so that they can ask questions immediately. However, teachers can just do an overview of the main points and then the podcast can contain more detail. This leaves more classroom time for project based learning.
The problem I have with this survey is that it doesn't define lecture. Do you mean large lecture hall with no interaction? Perhaps podcasts would be better. In a normal classroom setting with interaction between members - NO!
Podcasts do have a place in education, but shouldn't they be more than a lecture???
Let's do away with lectures!!