I’m totally gripped by Bowers book, and am now on the hunt for more writing. Why on Earth this reference hasn’t come my way in the past is a really big concern to me! Downes, Seimens, Artichoke! Do you know Chet Bower’s work? This guy deserves a Wikipedia page!
To my initial reading, his work is significant! His message fills this quiet space of concern I have had all along about all this computer mediated networked learning, and the cultural insensitivity it carries in it, not to mention the blind futurism we are all embroiled in. Bower’s book Let Them Eat Data for example, gives a much better voice to the counter arguments, much better than that Andrew Keen fella. Why the hell Keen has a WP article and Bowers does not is another concern…
I have only browsed the introductions in a list of readings he has on his web1 style blog, but they all share this clear and intelligent writing that Bowers has.
I have to get back to reading, just wanted to post now on the chance that someone out there knows his work and has a review for me. I’ll start the WP article soon enough…
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October 8, 2008 at 8:47 pm
Stan
hi Leigh – I used Bowers’ work in my thesis on an ecological approach to teaching and learning. Specifically Responsive Teaching , but earlier his Cultural Dimensions of Educational Computing was very influential in my thinking about computers and learning. More recently there is The False Promises of Constructivist Theories of Learning. I don’t think that this will enthuse the advocates of ‘connectivism’ 🙂
Send me an email and we can set up a time to chat on Skype ? cheers
October 23, 2008 at 7:23 pm
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