Sunday, April 20, 2008

Generative Dialoge - Tell students or not?

The final research project is turning out to be a huge deal. Over the weekend, I had to tell myself to stop researching new material, and stick with what I have. I can't keep on reading new material; I have to use what I have and start writing more.

Part of my final project is to create a model, or guidelines, to implement generative dialogue in my own online class. The question I have is this: Should I tell the students what I am trying to accomplish or do not tell them?

Telling them would probably be better, so they would know where the conversation is going. But my course isn't on generative dialogue, and I don't want to focus on that, but on the output, or results, of the dialogue process. Perhaps just a quick overview of the four stages of the dialogue process would be sufficient.

I don't really know if the online conversation can evolve to the Forth Field of generative dialogue. My only real hope is to get to the bottom of the U. That would make me happy.

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