As this particular article was placed in the entertainment section of the web site of a popular daily newspaper, entertainment values would therefore play a role in the way in which it is written. I believe this is evident in the way that it name drops more popular and everyday examples that the reader would be able to relate to, such as mentioning Big Brother, 24, and the England World Cup game.
Moreover, whole research papers and academic articles are summarized down to one or two sentences to represent the whole thing, so this implies to me that we are losing some of the finer detail, in favour of a reductionist statement. Whilst this may be easier for the typical reader of the newspaper to comprehend, it also inevitably means that some of the more complex arguments of the articles are omitted.
URL: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/article683193.ece
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So, do you think that good pedagogy stems from tailoring learning experience to the predilections of certain types of youngsters?
ReplyDeleteIs there a difference between technical skills learning and intellectual pursuits? How about boys and girls 'nativeness'. How about age/level?
Do produsage, copyleft, virtual settlements, online politics, trust etc. have any relation to all this do you think?
I think there's a fine line between tailoring learning to the preferences of your pupils and distracting from the content of what you're teaching them.
ReplyDeleteI think there's a degree of appropriateness which must be kept in mind when determining the best way to teach something to them, a way which will get the point across in an equally serious and enjoyable way which reaches to their different ways of processing information, without decreasing the value of such knowledge.
Contrary to the claims of one of the theorists I've been reading about on this topic, I don't think putting everything into a "game" is the ideal solution, if not only for fear of of patronising students.