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Frank Rennie

    • Lews Castle College UHI
    • Isle of Lewis,Outer Hebrides, Scotland, United Kingdom

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    Frank Rennie commented on The ecology of distributed education
    Part of the answer to the bombardment is better filtered searching of the web, eg semantic web applications, and a (large) part of it is educating today's learners how to better discern and undertand what information is use, in which context. As educators we are notoriously bad at educating perople to learn how to learn, rather than simply pointing them in the direction of more infomation. When I was a student we were given HUGE reading lists at the start of every term (most of which was only marginally relevant and much of which was out of date) now, with the internet, the volume and the speed of infomation provision has hugely increased, but the basic problem remains the same. The modern context, however, is that today's educators are no longer to point their students to EVERYTHING that is educationally relevant, so I maintain my insistence that the role of the perfect educator is to assist the students to learn how to learn, how to identify and use information in context, and to FACILITATE the process of joining the student to 1) examples of trusted resources and 2) to learning appropriate proceses to enable the student to continue effective life-long learning well after he/she has left the learning institution.
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