tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21077063.post754163313568512922..comments2024-02-16T08:32:46.618+00:00Comments on Donald Clark Plan B: Diplomas – deepening the divideDonald Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00796341486328270474noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21077063.post-91976806226484164562008-07-25T11:32:00.000+00:002008-07-25T11:32:00.000+00:00Kia ora Donald!For as negative as your post may co...Kia ora Donald!<BR/><BR/>For as negative as your post may comes across, I have to agree that I think it carries a lot of truth. It seems almost as negative as <A HREF="http://newmiddle-earth.blogspot.com/2008/07/no-barriers-to-elearning.html" REL="nofollow">my latest post</A>, though I have to admit that although yours hasn't been up as long as mine, it has already attracted more comment :-)<BR/><BR/>I wonder if we aren't living in the age of 'denial'. Postmodernism doesn't like to gloom-and-doom on the past or the future - a bit like the wee mousie in Burns' To a Mouse - "the present only toucheth thee".<BR/><BR/>The only visionaries postmodernists want to listen to have to be Pollyannas, however misguided their enthusiasm might be.<BR/><BR/>But to a more positive theme, David Wiley's <A HREF="http://opencontent.org/presentations/bcnet07/" REL="nofollow">vid</A> says much the same as you are saying about sharing resources being the way to go. I have always believed Wiley to be a visionary - many people think that way about him - and though I detect just a teenzie bit of despair in his talk, he tells that the future holds promise only through openness and sharing.<BR/><BR/>Ka kite<BR/>from Middle-earthBlogger In Middle-earthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08722634477041121797noreply@blogger.com