Any LMS is about the same, Moodle, Google Classroom, ... But a kind of "productive bias" was already there in teaching 5-paragraph essays: Students must turn in a nicely formatted essay printed from a computer, and it had been from the typewriter-era. I remember the days, in 1980, when I was last minute struggling with formatting my BA thesis with a typewriter when I was an English-major undergrad. Tools have been upgraded and the problem may have been worsened.
This is an excellent point. This bias about production has always been there. I wonder what era of education would be free of this productive demand? Could we ever feel comfortable discussing a book or two for a semester with students and having them create one response to it to prove they learned?
Any LMS is about the same, Moodle, Google Classroom, ... But a kind of "productive bias" was already there in teaching 5-paragraph essays: Students must turn in a nicely formatted essay printed from a computer, and it had been from the typewriter-era. I remember the days, in 1980, when I was last minute struggling with formatting my BA thesis with a typewriter when I was an English-major undergrad. Tools have been upgraded and the problem may have been worsened.
This is an excellent point. This bias about production has always been there. I wonder what era of education would be free of this productive demand? Could we ever feel comfortable discussing a book or two for a semester with students and having them create one response to it to prove they learned?