1) What do I find interesting? (Or Not)

      I really found this chapter interesting. The contrast between 

the adult run model and the community of learners model really piqued 

my interest. A few of the points were rehashed several times, but not 

so much as to make me lose interest.



2) What do I consider to be the main message?

     The main message was to expose the reader to the community of 

learners model. The adult-run and child-run models are given to 

provide context. There appears to be relatively little differance 

between the facts which are learned under the various models. The 

models do have differant effects on how children learn to learn 

though.



3) Which technologies are used / can be used /should be used to support?



   1. adult-run education

          In an adult run enviroment, the biggest challenge is

 effectively getting information from the adult to the student. 

Photocopies, handouts on the internet and other information 

distribution technologies are very effective here. 

   2. child-run education

          I really don't have as a good of a grasp on child run 

education and don't think I can answer this well.

   3. community of learners education 

          Here, tools like the Swiki that foster collaboration even

 when the students are physically seperated can be a great help. 

Information distribution tools like posting handouts on the internet 

will have limited effect here. There is no one source of information 

and each student / group of students would have a differant need for 

information anyway.



4).  analyze our course from the three dimensions:

         1. adult-run education

    Our courrse is largely instructor run. There are a couple reasons 

for this. The first is that we are in a field were the instructor has 

expertise. Students can recognize this and take the easy road out. 

With relatively little extra work on their part, the students can sit 

back, shut-up and have someone inform them. This is much less work 

than doing independant research and/or collaborating. 

         2. child-run education

     It is rare in our class for something to be entirely studnet driven.

         3. community of learners education

     This is the second best model for explaining our class. We 

participate in several small group projects which are guided by the 

instructor. It could be argued that these are self driven projects but

it says a lot when each independant research project group uses the 

reccommended book as a starting place. The summarizers model for these

homeworks is also instructor guided small group collaboration