Letter to The Chronicle of Higher Education
Sail’s Pedagogy,
Dec 16, 2011
"The Chronicle of Higher Education," writes lindaleea,"[has] just ask[ed] a question to [its] readers — 'Who Are the Top Technology Innovators in Higher Education?'" I like her response, and not just because I'm in it, but because it raises the question of whether this is the right question to ask at all. "It is not just one person or one great teacher I am learning from nowadays. It is many. Through the Internet I have created my own personal learning network, I am creating, curating and collaborating with many though out the world." The whole idea of trying to find the 'top technology innovators' is misguided. It's not some neutral estimation of the value of someone or some thing - it is, rather, more like searching through a crowd and finding someone who looks like you and saying "you are the one I call best!" Because in calling that person best, you aggrandize your own ideas, your own way of looking at the world, your own self.
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