http://trippy.edublogs.org/2006/03/12/stradling-the-fence/ Just another Edublogs.org weblog Sun, 12 Mar 2006 21:31:34 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 http://trippy.edublogs.org/2006/03/12/stradling-the-fence/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Karen McComas Sun, 12 Mar 2006 21:31:34 +0000 http://trippy.edublogs.org/2006/03/12/stradling-the-fence/#comment-5 I want access to everything, all the time, from everywhere. I thought it was greed, but perhaps not. Seriously, though, I did a little thinking about this myself last week but for a different reason. As you may know, I'm taking a class and we're studying the various learning theories and writing critiques of those. Our latest paper was about constructivism and there are virtually a dozen different "flavors" of that theory. One that caught my eye was cultural constructivism. While there are various definitions of that, essentially it refers to the different ways people construct knowledge as a result of the cultural artifacts, events, and knowledge that influence them during the construction. Computers and the internet have changed the way I think, the way I work, the way I communicate, and the way I am. I want access to everything, all the time, from everywhere. I thought it was greed, but perhaps not. Seriously, though, I did a little thinking about this myself last week but for a different reason. As you may know, I’m taking a class and we’re studying the various learning theories and writing critiques of those. Our latest paper was about constructivism and there are virtually a dozen different “flavors” of that theory. One that caught my eye was cultural constructivism. While there are various definitions of that, essentially it refers to the different ways people construct knowledge as a result of the cultural artifacts, events, and knowledge that influence them during the construction. Computers and the internet have changed the way I think, the way I work, the way I communicate, and the way I am.

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