Title
Learning While Alone Together On-Screen
Description
Video recording of an online lecture by Annapolis tutor William Braithwaite given on April 15, 2020.
Braithwaite describes his lecture: "In Memory and Recollection, Aristotle distinguishes that calling-back to conscious attention which we name 'remembering,' from the kindred activity of re-assembling that ensemble of original perceptions and primary intuitions ('connecting the dots'?) which together constitute knowing some one thing whole.
Are our e-meetings working as well as they are because we are able to remember and recollect the on-campus being-together that preceded them?
This communal experience, now a memory, had at its heart a paradox: we regularly met face-to-face, in the same place, to read together books written long ago (some in languages not our own), in far-away places, by men and women whose faces we can never see, whose voices no technology can let us hear. How is such a way of learning fruitful? Can it be done through a screen?
Drawing on our books, I shall offer some preliminary reflections on the differences, which we are now experiencing, between the screen and the page."
Enkh-Od Batzorig of the Student Committee on Instruction introduces Braithwaite's lecture.
Braithwaite describes his lecture: "In Memory and Recollection, Aristotle distinguishes that calling-back to conscious attention which we name 'remembering,' from the kindred activity of re-assembling that ensemble of original perceptions and primary intuitions ('connecting the dots'?) which together constitute knowing some one thing whole.
Are our e-meetings working as well as they are because we are able to remember and recollect the on-campus being-together that preceded them?
This communal experience, now a memory, had at its heart a paradox: we regularly met face-to-face, in the same place, to read together books written long ago (some in languages not our own), in far-away places, by men and women whose faces we can never see, whose voices no technology can let us hear. How is such a way of learning fruitful? Can it be done through a screen?
Drawing on our books, I shall offer some preliminary reflections on the differences, which we are now experiencing, between the screen and the page."
Enkh-Od Batzorig of the Student Committee on Instruction introduces Braithwaite's lecture.
Publisher
Coverage
Annapolis, MD
Date
2020-04-15
Rights
Permission to record the lecture and provide online access to the recording has been received.
Type
image
Format
mp4
Contributor
Language
English
Identifier
Braithwaite_William_2020-04-15
Original Format
Zoom video conference
Duration
00:36:02