Just an idea, really. Nothing sinister.
Giving students a personal learning environment deprives them of the opportunity to learn the meta-skill of creating their own interfaces. Now that my own interface has migrated to a wiki, it’s so easy to change, I tweak it several times a week. As the world becomes more complex, future citizens may log a lot of time adding new capabilities to their PLEs and purging obsolete ones. Here’s the top of today’s version of my interface.
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Jay I hear you man. And then how do we emphasize and shout to the rooftops that this meta-skill is a prerequisite to entry into the knowledge arena? That without it you can’t compete in the future or your learning skills will be ad hoc at best? Or is this no different than in the past where some people had library skills and others didn’t? I think that this is a necessary skill for organizations to prosper and thrive in the future and I struggle with the fact that there is very little recognition of the need. Back to your regular programming.
Hmmmm
On the planet I live on a significant proportion of the population would probably want to tie you up and beat you with a stick if you placed another obstacle in their way
Here is the thing.
Most people don’t have the time to explore, they want to get in get the task done/find out what they need and either get back to work or get back to life.
There is a vanishingly small number of people who want to/need to/are interested in tweaking interfaces (unfortunately I’m one of them)
Most aren’t
And Mark – Can’t compete ???
That’s just crazy talk
James, you’re probably right. Short-term gain outweighs long-term benefit. Hence, the environment. I keep hoping the light will dawn….
jay