--- "Heidelberg, Chris" <Chris.Heidelberg@ssa.gov> wrote: <snip>
-----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of chodge5@utk.edu Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 9:15 AM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-l] Technology Transforming Education--EE-Learning
On Wed, 23 May 2007, Marj Kibby wrote:
Online learning does have the power to dissolve barriers of time and place - but it is not without it's limitations ... some of which have been mentioned in previous posts on this subject.
I just read -- can't remember where now -- an article on Freud's "Disturbance of Memory on the Acropolis," where he talks about the shock he felt when he finally saw the Acropolis in person and realized that it was, in fact, real, something he had known intellectually his entire life. I wonder if anyone has looked at this in the context of computer-mediated communication. It's probably a common experience for all of us now to interact with people, occasionally with some frequency and in some depth, without ever encountering that person in the real world...and then having the experience of meeting that person (finally) at a conference....perhaps not dissimilar from how we imagined characters in a novel -- back when people read novels -- and then saw the movie version.
I would say not just _now_. In the business context - certainly working for an international company from 1980, with widely distributed national and worldwide interests, working by phone and paper (and then e-mail) with many people who you would often never meet, save for maybe irregularly if at all, was the norm. That goes back in my direct experience to the early '80s. And also in the '70s, working in international and domestic banking, and then as a student activist in the mid to late '70s. Meeting those you've spoken with maybe only for months or years, written to, and then e-mailed for the first time would be equally disturbing. Noone ever seems to look the way they speak! D. Dominic Pinto http://www.ecademy.com/user/dominicpinto http://www.linkedin.com/in/dominicpinto Live or work in, or visit Covent Garden and Westminster? Check out http://www.westmin.co.uk/index.php e-m: dominic.pinto@ieee.org Skype: zorrodp M: +44 780 302-8268 Ph: +44 207 379-8341 In the U.S. M/Cell: +1 215 667-3001