Perhaps it’s not surprising that Foucault, the “panopticon guy”, is characterized as a thinker of power, discipline, and punishment. But as Deleuze (1995) points out, Foucault also believed that we are increasingly moving away from being societies based on discipline to societies based on control. According to Deleuze’s reading of Foucault: “We’re moving toward control [...]
Entries from August 2006
Confinement, Education and the Control Society
August 25th, 2006 · 2 Comments
Tags: online learning · politics and global justice
Video Games, Authority, and Problem-based Thinking
August 14th, 2006 · 12 Comments
[UPDATE: Raph Koster has replied to this post over at his blog, and Gus offers some interesting thoughts as well.]
The September 2006 issue of Harper’s Magazine (contents not online, unfortunately) has a piece titled Grand Theft Education: Literacy in the Age of Video Games. It is a conversation between Jane Avrich (author and English teacher), [...]
Tags: online learning