Comments on: On Again, Off Again http://chrislott.org/story/on-again-off-again/ Musings on education, techology, and life.. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:27:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: beau http://chrislott.org/story/on-again-off-again/comment-page-1/#comment-145429 beau Thu, 17 Apr 2008 03:21:25 +0000 http://www.chrislott.org/2008/04/16/on-again-off-again/#comment-145429 I embrace in my own long passed teaching days the notion of the value of letting experience precede theory whenever possible. I think maybe one factor that qualifies as a "difference which makes a difference" is the opportunity cost associated with the learning curve of a particular tool, and maybe couple that with the tendency of us primates to stick to what we know, to solve our new problems as we have solved our old ones. With those to pieces in place, it can really make a difference what brush you put in the beginning painter's hand. Your students, your kids, will be natives in a world of vastly fragmented and divided attention in which you and I are only tourists or immigrants. That said, I find what compels me to use one implementation over another is the folks I meet in the process of surveying the field and learning how to dip my brush. I embrace in my own long passed teaching days the notion of the value of letting experience precede theory whenever possible. I think maybe one factor that qualifies as a “difference which makes a difference” is the opportunity cost associated with the learning curve of a particular tool, and maybe couple that with the tendency of us primates to stick to what we know, to solve our new problems as we have solved our old ones. With those to pieces in place, it can really make a difference what brush you put in the beginning painter’s hand.

Your students, your kids, will be natives in a world of vastly fragmented and divided attention in which you and I are only tourists or immigrants. That said, I find what compels me to use one implementation over another is the folks I meet in the process of surveying the field and learning how to dip my brush.

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