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i feel like most ppl in theory agree that the lecture is a dead pedagogical tool and yet every conference i go to still plays the ‘important person on stage’ vs. ‘listeners in seats’ game i’m curious who’s experimenting with new interior design for new types of conversation
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I’ve been hearing the tired slurs against “sage on a stage” model for 20+ years. Only leftist education ideologues with more abstract ideas than communications experience take them seriously. Person on stage is just a method like any other. Good for some things, not for others.
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If anything, it is the oppressively authoritarian attempts to impose “approved” methods ranging from discussions and small groups to fishbowls and “learning style” (did not replicate) models that have lost credibility.
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It’s best to treat communication model choices as engineering problems, while remaining aware of latent power dynamics in them. Treating them as pure ideological choices divorced from functional and informational context is dumb in a way only party apparatchiks can love.
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