Re: <nettime> FWD: re: switching to teaching online

[John Hopkins <jhopkins@neoscenes.net>]

On 18/Mar/20 06:56, Hoofd, I.M. (Ingrid) wrote:
> Teachers online doing their care work for their students everywhere in the world now: respect.

Totally concur, Ingrid, as a learning facilitator, yes, I understand the 
alienation connected with highly-mediated human connection very well. But what 
Andreas' repost seems to suggest, is a relinquishing of relation with those 
young people in a very tough moment. The comm channels that are there for 
'online delivery' may be developed and used to promote awareness, action, 
learning about precisely what we all are going through if nothing else, as 
Heidrun suggests. And if I can help my interns out using those tools and those 
venues, I say go for it (because I am self-isolating atm, much to the 
displeasure of my stupid boss, invoking a university protocol that says over-60s 
can work from home 5 days a week).

Now, I do agree with the fact that propagation of traditional push-oriented 
online indoctrination in bullshit, yeah, I've never been a traditional learning 
facilitator who supports that in any instance, but using the Master's tools at 
this moment may very well aid in a positive, and interim restructuring of the 
future! If there is a future that any of us will recognize or that a majority 
will survive to experience...

A re-read of "pedagogy of the oppressed" might be in order ... IMHO, how we (at 
least the older nettime demographic) respond to this crisis will dictate, in the 
widest view, if nettime had/has and lasting/persistent value (re: the archive 
issue just discussed last week) ...

jh

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