Re: ED needs ***LOW*** TECH

Jim Ellsworth (ELLSWORJ%HUA1@HUACHUCA-EMH11.ARMY.MIL)
Mon, 4 Dec 1995 23:43:41 EST

I think I've probably taken up enough bandwidth on this issue already.
I have a hard time believing that anyone who has participated in the
advancement of Instructional Systems Theory over the last decade+ AND
seen the demonstrable effects on learning we've achieved through
APPROPRIATE use of each round of technological advances (as I have)
could give these arguments much credence. Nevertheless, I suspect
that those on either side of the battle are equally unlikely to budge
at this stage.

The sad thing about dismissing new technology (as opposed to the worst
instances of its INappropriate use) as "the glitz *treadmill*" (and
reaching the defeatist conclusion "why bother to climb on") is that
it implies that there is such a thing as "good enough," beyond which
we can be complacent and cease striving to educate more effectively
through careful application of the new technological and methodological
tools that dilligent research provides for us.

I graduate from my Officer Advanced Course tomorrow, so I may try to
provide the detail Jorn requests -- but as I'm probably preaching to
the choir and/or the saloon I'll probably shut up for a while! :-)

Jim Ellsworth ELLSWORJ%HUA1@huachuca-emh11.army.mil 520-533-5324
Nov. 30, 1995