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Re: Didactics and Pedagogy
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Posted by Ms. NG Maria Lee-Hoon (MNG@idrc.org.sg) on July 11, 2000 at 14:14:41:
In Reply to: Re: Didactics and Pedagogy posted by Prof. FRASER William John on July 07, 2000 at 15:38:53:
: But, what is in a concept, term or word? We often spend so much time in doing so that we forget the main task and function of our role as educators.: Cheers , Bill Fraser Hi,
Let me feel my way about some of these things with you.
I think I am pretty convinced that conceptual knowledge strengthens practice and practice extends theory. Take for instance, the emergent technologies and how they are used for DE. I believe the concepts of life-long learning, learner-to-learner learning, the professor as a support component of the learning system, constructivism rather than instructivism, community of learners, etc., etc. all came about with the advent of the use of Internet -related technologies, or at least the concepts became alot more concretised and real. CMC seems to have offered a very rich bed for theory development ... grounded, bottom-up theory,
Cheers, Maria
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