http://www.xplanazine.com/2003/06/new-media-consortium-conference-session-1 Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:22:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 http://www.xplanazine.com/2003/06/new-media-consortium-conference-session-1#comment-421 Sarah Lohnes Thu, 12 Jun 2003 15:01:00 +0000 http://www.xplanazine.com/2003/06/new-media-consortium-conference-session-1#comment-421 thanks for the very thought-provoking comments here about communities. as a teacher I always found the idea of "groups" in classes kind of silly and artificial - exactly because they were not REAL communities. but with serious consideration of what a community is, I feel like I can finally do some of the things that the pedagogy of "groups" has been advocating all along. there has got to be a way to have classes turn into communities, in the same way that I see other communities organizing around sites on the web that are culture-based (movie lovers, musicians and audiophiles, poets and writers of all sorts, etc.) thanks for the very thought-provoking comments here about communities. as a teacher I always found the idea of “groups” in classes kind of silly and artificial - exactly because they were not REAL communities. but with serious consideration of what a community is, I feel like I can finally do some of the things that the pedagogy of “groups” has been advocating all along. there has got to be a way to have classes turn into communities, in the same way that I see other communities organizing around sites on the web that are culture-based (movie lovers, musicians and audiophiles, poets and writers of all sorts, etc.)

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