Philosophy

Bus Tours and Open Air Museums, Pageants and Weblogs

I found myself recommending a bus tour yesterday. I never thought I'd do that, because I have been dragged along on so many. But for some purposes, with some kinds of follow-up, a bus tour is the perfect educational tool. For other purposes, the corny local pageant does just the right job.

So many teaching tools are available -- initiation rites, powerpoint presentations, lectures, learning circles, group exercises, walking tours. And none of them has supplanted the others; but as more tools become available, each one is put precisely in its place. It becomes clearer and clearer as tools multiply what the particular strengths are for particular strategies.