Jenny

media type="custom" key="4379281" My education in K-12 was mostly in the remembering area. Actually, as I progressed in school, I progressed up the taxonomy. However, this is not true in the creative areas. I was always involved in art and music and created first before going into other steps of the taxonomy. media type="custom" key="4379343" media type="custom" key="4403067" I am left with the impression that John Dewey argues for classroom teaching over what we learn just from our every day life in society. He argues that teaching needs to be more formal - in the sense that we involve professional teachers in a social/classroom setting - in order for maximum learning to take place. His arguments are evolutionary in process, following a logical sequence of learning from one (e.g., parent) to learning from many (e.g., teachers). As Dewey points out, "Without formal education, it is not possible to transmit all the resources and achievements of a complex society." media type="youtube" key="424ZAux_Z40" height="364" width="445"HERE'S JOHN!!

Us Now – Reflection Some thoughts on three ideas presented in this video: · I am left with a sense of our society moving towards “mashing” in the sense that we are creating the product. We are becoming “share holders” in the product instead of just consumers, where stockholders traditionally make all the decisions. Now, we have an opportunity to help form decisions and policy. As far as the segment on government: we already have a voice; we just need to use it! · The sites featured in this video are about collaboration – Web 2.0 – which is now and the future. In this way we are becoming more connected, more responsible to and for each other. So, even though family is becoming split up as members are no longer all living in the same community, collaboration allows us to tap into “sage” help through internet sites, such as the Mumsnet site featured in the video. · As the video points out, there are, of course, the issues of safety and trust. In a collaborative “state,” we will have to be more trusting of one another. And there will be those out there in cyberspace ready to take advantage of our trust. One must be willing to also relinquish a certain amount of privacy in some of the future businesses featured. For example, while having your community help lend you money, do I want everyone knowing what I need that money for? I do agree that the hierarchal way of running a business will most likely die out; when a business opens its mindset to everyone being an equal contributor to ideas, everyone wins. But as with most radical new ideas, the older-ideas generation must, quite frankly, die out. My hope is that such collaborative approaches will indeed be less competitive. · Am I ready for something like Couchsurfing? No, not for me. When I visited the site it certainly had plenty of “disclaimers” that made me question its safety. But I do see it as a useful tool for people in a new city, or for shy persons who maybe want to “test the waters” before becoming involved in any particular group of people.