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Archive for Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Technology for learning. Technology for worship?
Tuesday, May 19, 2009 by Jay T.
I’m looking forward to volunteering next month with Bike First, the Portland affiliate of Lose the Training Wheels. We help people with disabilities learn to ride two wheeled bicycles.
The teaching I do there is quite different from my usual work in the school year. The teaching system at these bike camps was founded on the insights of a mechanical engineer. It relies on some very cleverly designed machines 
to do the teaching. Had it been designed by teachers, it would be focused on the interaction between cyclist and teacher, rather than the interaction between cyclist and bicycle.
Bike camp is a unique experience for me. There’s nowhere else I practice my teaching craft that my own personal style is so clearly secondary to another element in the learning relationships of students, skills and objects.
Because of the reliance on the innovative machines, limiting the curriculum to just one skill set, and limiting the students to those who can walk, keep feet on pedals and want to learn this skill, we succeed at a high rate.
I reflected on this on Sunday morning. Is there a technology to teach the insights and skills of silent worship? Quakerism is not something I believe so much as something I practice. Read the rest of this entry »
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