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don't mean for this to come across as snarky but what has he done lately? is his best work from the 1980's?
by lingben 10y ago
don't mean for this to come across as snarky but what has he done lately? is his best work from the 1980's?
- Animats 10y agoThat may be the problem. He sounds bitter.
- fixermark 10y agoIt does, unfortunately, have a bit of an "Old man yells at cloud" tone to it. And I don't see any solid evidence for his arguments beyond appeal-to-authority in that essay.
- edtechdev 10y agoHe may be a bit of a curmudgeon - his blog is called Education Outrage, after all: http://educationoutrage.blogspot.com/ http://educationoutrage.blogspot.com/ But he's done and continues to do a lot of good work. He helped found the Learning Sciences (an offshoot of cognitive science, AI, psychology, etc.) in the late 80s and early 90s. He continued and continues to do work in education, including founding experiential schools and writing books on education: http://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=roger+schank http://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywor...