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directives that offered students limited opportunities for self-
determination. As Cope and Kalantzis (2010) note:
We can use computers to re-create
traditional, transmission
pedagogies that embody a mimetic relationship to knowledge:
absorb the theories, practice the
formulae, learn the facts,
appreciate the greats of the canon, internalize the socio-moral
truth that others have deemed will be good for us... the
learners' relationships to knowledge and the processes of
pedagogy have not necessarily changed in any significant
way. (p.88)
Therefore, it is not so much about chucking the five-paragraph
essay for the podcast, but about granting students a measure of
autonomy within the process of knowledge construction. It's making
the switch from isolated, packaged lessons about self-determination
to actually weaving self-determination
into the fabric of classroom
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