Programs, Correspondence, 1968, January-July (1968)

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-74- very difficult to understand, much less believe, that playing games is educational. Games are games, work is work, and learning is learning. That learning is work comes closer to their understanding than gaming is learning. So, at least with this population, the newer methods of educational technology are less applicable, less meaningful as experience. We do not mean to imply by the foregoing that we should not relate to advanced technology. What we do insist on is that innovation relate meaningĀ¬ fully to those frames of reference within which the poverty population operates. To structure arbitrarily, outside of those parameters, is to invite disaster for the whole idea. Since we are dealing with television programs, these should be developed within the confines of readable disciplines, and get at some new (or not so new) ideas about how people learn. People learn well in groups because they have the opportunity to draw on each others' experiences, each others' failures, and each others' successes, as has been mentioned before.