The AECT’s Strategic Task Force is working on this notion of Overlay. We’ve been banging around a vision of what that might look like and how it might work. In the comments, Stephanie Roberts says:
…I think we
Experiments abound.
I just created a watchlist on Technorati for all blog entries with key word AECT.
You can find it at http://www.technorati.com/watchlists/rss.html?wid=30880
Over the last few days I’ve been considering this interactive overlay on reality.
I’m considering the things I might want to be able to do … Things I wish I had been ABLE to do in Chicago and things that we’d like to have ready for Orlando.
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The AECT Strategic Task Force has been wrestling with a rather nebulous charge.
“If the AECT didn’t exist, what would it look like if we invented it now?”
One of the challenges is that normal research methods rely on a discovery process for existing conditions but they’re not really good at projecting. A good needs assessment should identify needs, but it falls to human ingenuity to figure a way to meet those needs. The other problem with needs assessments is that they can only identify those things that people percieve as needs.
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I heard about this course thru Andy Carvin’s Digital Divide Network and decided to see how it works. I have no background in EFL/ESL so my contributions here will no relate so much to the language issues so much as the pedagogical. I’m interested to see what this community outside of my regular group does with this.
It starts, officially, tomorrow and runs for 6 weeks. I’m figuring it’ll be a real trip.
The story of Akedemos is a rather confused one. I don’t have my Bullfinch at hand, but what I can glean from other resources, the story goes something like this.
About 32 centuries ago, Theseus and his friend, Peirithous, in youthful high spirits decided one day that it would be very nice to take a couple of Zeus’s daughters as wives. To advance this cause, they kidnapped a very young Helen (the same Helen who would be kidnapped later by Paris — igniting the Trojan War) from her home in Sparta. Helen’s brothers, Castor and Pollux, took their army to Attica to try to retrieve their younger sister, but were unable to locate her. An Athenian named Akademos learned where the girl was being kept and told the brothers where to find her. His information spared the countryside from the ravages of the invading army. When Akademos died, he was buried with honor on the grounds of his home a few kilometers from Athens.
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