WORKING ABOUT CULTURAL CRITERIA IN DISTANCE LEARNING.
Since time ago I started to read the anthropologist Edward T. Hall (thanks Derrick about it) and more late I started to work with Myndi to create a list of questions usseful in training and e-learning enviroments with cultural considerations. In last post I have some comment.
Hall, Edward Twitchell (1914--)
The book The Silent Languaje (1959) and Beyong Culture (1966) were a good job to help us in our background. Right now, all of this had meaning thanks the chat with Derrick and Mark and the meetings with Myndi (thanks to be patient with me). The main goal is answer at "What questions can be interesting when we want to work in diferents context of training? If in the future we create an on-line tool to determinate cultural considerations in e-learning environments, What do you think about this list? Is possible to you understand these items?
Interactional/Learning
*Community lore -what gets taught and learned:
Community description.
Teaching Content.
Student Interests.
Organizational/Learning
*Learning groups- educational institutions:
Number of students (Primary School).
Number of students (Secondary School).
Number of students (University).
Economic/Learning
*Reward for teaching and learning:
Reward for class accomplishment.
When finish a course...
When finish a class...
Sexual/Learning
*What the sexes are taught:
Subjects taught to men.
Subjects taught to women.
Territorial/Learning
*Places for learning:
Description of classroom in Primary School.
Description of classroom in Secondary School.
Description of classroom in University.
Is home-schooling accepted? Is it common? Are field trips encouraged? Are they
common?
Temporal/Learning
*Scheduling of learning (group):
Number of hours of class per day (all three levels).
Length of each class (all three levels).
Instructional/Learning
*Enculturation- Rearing (crianza)- Informal learning- Education:
National Day
Labor day
Religion/s
Main holidays- explanation of meaning
Typical food
Typical fruit
Typical drink
Average number of children per family
Average number of women in the workforce
How common are non-traditional families? Please describe.
How common are traditional families? Please describe.
Recreational/Learning
*Making learning fun:
Plays in class.
Common techniques.
Contextual examples.
Discuss
ALWAYS I FORGET...
Thanks to Tammi I was reading an interesting paper on the University of California at Berkeley: How Much Information?2003.
Uau! The unit of information is so big, so big: 2 exabites have the total volume of information generated in 1999. Back of this:
2 kilobites: a typewritten page
1 megabite: one small novel; 2: a high-resolution photograph; 5: the complet work of Shakespeare
1 gigabite: a pickup truck filled with books
1 terabite: fivety thousand trees made into paper and printed; 10: the print collections of the U.S. Library of Congress.
2 petabites: all US academic research libraries; 200: all printed material
5 exabite: all words ever spoken by human beings.
Discuss
