Chris: This is an incredibly wonderful insight that you have made because I've often thought about it when working with public figures or traveling to well known destinations. One may have seen these places many times on television, in books or the web, but the first time that I saw the Capitol, or The Alamo, or The White House or Fort McHenry or Johns Hopkins' original medical building or the Hollywood sign I felt that shock. It is even more shocking when you meet people whether it is someone that admire or someone that you disagree with politically (which happens a lot if you work in the Baltimore/Washington corridor or in LA) LOL. -----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. Chris Hodge University of Tennessee "There's quitters to be buried." John Wayne, Red River _______________________________________________ The air-l@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/