At 10:28 AM 22/01/2014, Janet Hawtin wrote: >There is a lot of trivial win/lose on television and very little >negotiated win/win. >Where is the space for learning a different modality.
Spot on, Janet. (sort of drifting off topic, but I'm sure there are thematic links) And I think your examples of activities that get teams working together instead of against each other in social studies and science are terrific. The prize is to solve a problem that helps society, not to beat the other guy. Seems to me there are interactions here of the type of media transitions that are going on, the implementation of elearning, the sorts of school activities that emphasise various approaches, and living in a culture of glorified competition rather than cooperation. We're somewhat back to systems thinking and understanding human behaviour and human development. (Don't even get me started with government politicisation of the curriculum!) There are no absolutes, despite what many rulers (and I use that term quite consciously) spout. It's hard to know what the general rather than the anecdotal facts are because there is so much going on in all those variables (one of the reasons I walked away from educational research -- the complexity was too great in reality to confidently reduce it to practical application). 'Close' or 'best guess with least damage' is about as good as we can get, I guess. Maybe I'm just getting old. ;-) Jan Melbourne, Victoria, Australia jw...@janwhitaker.com Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you're gonna die, so how do you fill in the space between here and there? It's yours. Seize your space. ~Margaret Atwood, writer _ __________________ _ _______________________________________________ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link