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

[Dominic Pinto]

--- "Heidelberg, Chris" <Chris.Heidelberg at ssa.gov>
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> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 9:15 AM
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> Subject: Re: [Air-l] Technology Transforming
> Education--EE-Learning
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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. 
> 

I would say not just _now_. 

In the business context - certainly working for an
international company from 1980, with widely
distributed national and worldwide interests, working
by phone and paper (and then e-mail) with many people
who you would often never meet, save for maybe
irregularly if at all, was the norm.

That goes back in my direct experience to the early
'80s. And also in the '70s, working in international
and domestic banking, and then as a student activist
in the mid to late '70s.

Meeting those you've spoken with maybe only for months
or years, written to, and then e-mailed for the first
time would be equally disturbing. Noone ever seems to
look the way they speak!

D.



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