Rethinking The Academy:

Teach One Another the Technology

This happens far more often - and can be far more exhilarating - than teachers who have taught only in traditional classrooms can realize. When students teach each other and the teacher things that the classroom community as a whole recognizes as having a real value, such as, for instance, the ability to read or to post HTML files in a browser or on the web, the students can become deeply committed to the course; in my own teaching, I have had the privilege of walking into the classroom and finding students already hard at work, writing papers when they think they're only learning how to use the computer. Of course, this is not true of all students - some find the whole technology frustrating and fearful.

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