do no harm:


idit dobb-weinstein: "teaching is action and thinking at once. What I try to guard against most when I teach is not speaking as if my answer were conclusive, so as to avoid (to the extent possible) any kind of dogmatic appropriation. It is understandable why students might wish to imitate their teachers, but there are different modes of imitation. I try very hard to avoid the mimetic appropriation that is immediate, passive, and occludes thinking. One other reason is that if I made clear what my views were, and my views appeared as if they were final, it would preclude the possibility of first, students challenging me and second, learning from my students. The relation between the student and teacher is, to me, a dynamic relationship . . . Teaching and learning is a movement that occurs between. In other words, we are at once both agent and patient, both teacher and learner. If we are not very careful, we can do a great deal of harm. And that, too, I have learned from my teachers, Maimonides especially.

I believe my task is to provoke students to think and to engage them in genuine dialogue and questioning. To paraphrase a rabbinic saying, 'I have learned from my teachers, and I have learned from my peers, but I have learned most from my students.' And that is a continuous process of learning."

Wednesday 24 March 2010

codes
dead end systems
amazing marginalized chicana movement facing digital divides
http://bambuser.com/channel/anthropologylacc/broadcast/645377
LACC broadband block hurts education
fight for free and open streaming of intelligent info.
research campus blocks re p2p suits

not to mention ADA
http://www.afb.org/
restricted tech roadblocks
restricting edu prosperity cognitive potentials
rigours

plurilateral
ACTA
IFPI
boomerlaw
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