Greetings Economists, On Mar 1, 2007, at 9:29 AM, Mark Lause wrote:
Fascinating study, but probably nothing those of us that teach don't learn every day.
Doyle; Your reaction is fascinating to me. The pressure is on teaching to automate the teaching process by online means. That shapes behavior in the sense of the classroom interaction is surely being truncated and perhaps at least radically re-shaped. When I see a miss use of a disability term like narcissism I usually feel now the meaning is severely distorted by an agreement about the political import of disability. The general equation is the other is disabled and that's the worst case. So if students are narcissists this enables a value judgment or ethical conclusion about whatever. However, information is being distributed more and more on line, and what sort of behavior that engenders is not about narcissism but a vast increase in information production. MySpace is social software. Being at the center of it all is about a connection process that 'feels' good. Therefore the production process is actually addressing issues in the way face to face or the classroom can't. Doyle
