Who Needs Internet Invention?
There are ‘thems that do’ but there are however strong ‘thems that don’t.’ Experiment with pedagogy, I mean. That is, there are, of course, good teachers/good people in both camps, but for me because this discipline is about how to have ideas and what to do with them, it is important to keep rethinking the basic assumptions. Such a book as Internet Invention will help you revise your pedagogy and perhaps your program. There are, however,and strong disincentives to experiment with pedagogy. You dont get paid enough and/or your job/promotion/morale is based on students liking you (student evaluations). Ive taught classes that experimented with some really difficult texts, heuristics and classroom activities AND I was slammed on several occasions by students who did not feel “good” (secure, knowledgeable) in the class. So, to be honest, I think the people who will use a book like this, or David Blakesly’s Dramatism, will be either courageous or tenured, and probably both. Still, books lik
There are ‘thems that do’ but there are however strong ‘thems that don’t.’ Experiment with pedagogy, I mean. That is, there are, of course, good teachers/good people in both camps, but for me because this discipline is about how to have ideas and what to do with them, it is important to keep rethinking the basic assumptions. Such a book as Internet Invention will help you revise your pedagogy and perhaps your program. There are, however,and strong disincentives to experiment with pedagogy. You dont get paid enough and/or your job/promotion/morale is based on students liking you (student evaluations). Ive taught classes that experimented with some really difficult texts, heuristics and classroom activities AND I was slammed on several occasions by students who did not feel “good” (secure, knowledgeable) in the class. So, to be honest, I think the people who will use a book like this, or David Blakesly’s Dramatism, will be either courageous or tenured, and probably both. Still, books lik
