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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 10:05:00 CST
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- Subject: Re: Standardizing Composition Cl
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- Eric, I don't think we "steal" from our students by making explicit the rules
- and assumptions by which we and they operate. Another aspect of Zuboff's
- findings is that, in introducing information technology into the work
- environment, organizations are forced to "textualize" their knowledge (not
- just the explicit stuff, but the implicit stuff as well) to make it available
- to and from the computer, and that, in the process, relationships among people
- change because their relationship(s) to knowledge change(s). One result, as
- I've argued in a recent essay, is to engender among all participants
- (instructors as well as students) a degree of "meta-knowledge" (knowledge of
- themselves as participants in an on-going conversation whose purpose is to
- construct the knowledge "produced" by the course); that meta-knowledge in turn
- plays a significant part, I think, in heightening participants' awareness of
- and ability to construct relationships among various components of the course
- material. At the same time, it generates some of the informal collaboration
- we've been describing here as characteristic of "outside"-class behavior.
- Hence my interest in WIOLE.
-
- John Slatin
- UT Austin
-