[Air-l] Technology Transforming Education--EE-Learning

[Heidelberg, Chris]

Chris:

This is an incredibly wonderful insight that you have made because I've
often thought about it when working with public figures or traveling to
well known destinations. One may have seen these places many times on
television, in books or the web, but the first time that I saw the
Capitol, or The Alamo, or The White House or Fort McHenry or Johns
Hopkins' original medical building or the Hollywood sign I felt that
shock. It is even more shocking when you meet people whether it is
someone that admire or someone that you disagree with politically (which
happens a lot if you work in the Baltimore/Washington corridor or in LA)
LOL.

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On Wed, 23 May 2007, Marj Kibby wrote:

> Online learning does have the power to dissolve barriers of time and 
> place - but it is not without it's limitations ... some of which have 
> been mentioned in previous posts on this subject.

I just read -- can't remember where now -- an article on Freud's
"Disturbance of Memory on the Acropolis," where he talks about the shock
he felt when he finally saw the Acropolis in person and realized that it
was, in fact, real, something he had known intellectually his entire
life.
I wonder if anyone has looked at this in the context of
computer-mediated communication. It's probably a common experience for
all of us now to interact with people, occasionally with some frequency
and in some depth, without ever encountering that person in the real
world...and then having the experience of meeting that person (finally)
at a conference....perhaps not dissimilar from how we imagined
characters in a novel -- back when people read novels -- and then saw
the movie version. 


Chris Hodge
University of Tennessee


"There's quitters to be buried."
John Wayne, Red River



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