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--- Forwarded Message from Ed Dente <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 16:14:43 -0400 (EDT) >From: Ed Dente <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Devil's Advocate >To: LLTI <[log in to unmask]> I'm not sure if you all know the Web arts and literature daily compendium, "Arts and Letters Daily", http://cybereditions.com/aldaily/, but apart from its daily cull of fascinating material of general interest, it features regular reprints of technology/education papers and articles that I would otherwise miss. On the thoery that Satchel Paige was wrong, and that we SHOULD always look over our shoulder because something may be gaining on us, and to keep aware of the devil's advocate position in our profession, I'd like point out two particular "reprints" in this week's edition. One is a piece from the Chronicle of Higher Education that you may have seen by Jeffrey Young on David Noble's attack on Distance Education ("David F. Noble says distance education is fool's gold, and he's eager to point out who the fools are...") (http://chronicle.com/free/v46/i30/30a00101.htm). The other article is also one that may be familiar -- what they describe as the "classic attack on computers in education" by Todd Oppenheimer, from the Atlantic Monthly (http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/97jul/computer.htm). This is included in conjunction with a report on Clifford Stoll's recent screed against computers in education. I guess we've seen and heard a lot of this kind of material already, but these articles offer some new food for thought. Cheers, Ed "If you want to call me that, smile" -Gary Cooper, <<The Virginian>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Edmund N. Dente Director, Language Media Center Ph: 617-627-3036 Tufts University [log in to unmask] Medford, MA 02155