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Saturday, April 27, 2002
http://64.5.219.71/downes/cgi-bin/website/view.cgi?dbs=Article&key=1019853845&format=full Education and Embodiment Stephen Downes We hear over and over again the idea that our online experiences are impersonal, disembodied experiences, and that therefore a full education, which necessarily involves bodily experiences, is impossible online. It is impossible because we are in an important sense detached from the physical world, and therefore unable to distinguish between the significant and the trivial, because there is no causal connection between ourselves and cyberspace, no consequences to our actions. This view of learning and living online not only misrepresents cyberspace, it also misrepresents how we experience and how we learn generally. For we are not disembodied entities when we interact online; we remain feeling and breathing beings....
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