[NIFL-4EFF:1864] Re: What does a transparent approach mean?

From: Bonnie Fortini (bfortini@acad.umm.maine.edu)
Date: Tue Oct 23 2001 - 10:05:00 EDT 

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And herein resides the rub!  While we can deal with the transparency of
technology by mastering the tool- from fountain pen or mechanical pencil
to computer (personally, I am still working on the electric pencil
sharpener in our office that seems bent upon eating my pencils), EFF asks
to be noticed.  Watching students (and practitioners) find themselves in
the framework or roles has been an instructive experience for me.  So many
of the students in our program have, for so many reasons, never "had a
clue" about becoming an effective individual.  The tools in EFF are often
the first glimmer of goals and plans for some of them.  And the fact that
EFF began in and continues to return to the field to be refined and
informed predisposes the process to some level of resonance with our
students.

If the approach needs to be transparent, then perhaps it should be "second
nature" for practitioners who should become "fluent" in the application
of the EFF tools. The struggle to understand and implement EFF is part of
the tool kit, and if that isn't "taking responsibility for learning,"
"reflect and evaluate," and all the communication skills at least, then I
don't know what is.

Bonnie F.

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