Neil Postman & Charles Weingartner (1969) Teaching as a Subversive Activity - Chapter 3

The Inquiry Method

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"The inquiry method is not designed to do better what older environments try to do. It works you over in (cont) http://tl.gd/720q60less than a minute ago via Twittelatoranderscj
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This is also the same problem I see with the critiques of 1:1 laptop programs by people like Larry Cuban. The introduction of a new powerful media element in a classroom clearly changes everything including what it should do or what we should expect it to do. If we are only focused on how a classroom innovation will increase test scores then we are focusing on the wrong thing. We should be looking at how it changes everything.

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@anderscj but it is the best learning, isn't it? :)less than a minute ago via TweetDeckEdna Sackson
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"when the teacher assumes new functions and exhibits different behaviors, so do his students." Postman & Weingartnerless than a minute ago via Twittelatoranderscj
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"good learners have confidence in their ability to learn." Postman & Weingartnerless than a minute ago via Twittelatoranderscj
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"Good learners tend to know what is relevant to their survival and what is not." Postman & Weingartnerless than a minute ago via Twittelatoranderscj
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"Good learners are usually not fearful of being wrong." Postman & Weingartnerless than a minute ago via Twittelatoranderscj
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