If you haven't watched them already, view these overview videos:

• From Didactic Pedagogy to New Learning
  
• What's the Use of Technology in Learning? Introducing Seven e-Affordances.
  

Additional Introductory Videos:

• Can Education Lead Technology? The PLATO Story
  

Additional Advanced Videos:

• New Technologies, New Social Relationships and Learning - James Gee
  
• Society or School: What Determines Educational Outcomes? - James Gee and Mary Kalantzis
  

The debates about the nature of learning that we are addressing in this course are not new! Consider these thinkers:

Overview Readings:

• The rule of St Benedict
• Dewey on “progressive education”
• Gee on Video Games
  

Additional Introductory Readings:

• Aristotle on mimesis
• Confucius on the learned person
• Rousseau’s Emile
• Montessori on “natural education”
  

Additional Advanced Readings:

• Ivan Illich on “deschooling society”
• Skinner on “programmed learning”
• Freire on the “banking” model of learning
• Mitra on self-motivated learning

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