Questions pertaining to the desirability of noise in the classroom immediately
come to mind here. The question of whether the subdued classroom is truly the
optimal learning atmosphere is pretty unavoidable. And that being the case,
it probably shouldn't be much of a surprise that I've linked to this same article
in my Hebrew
blog that deals with educational issues. Pretty much by definition schools
filter noise, they create synthetic environments that, rather than imitating
"the outside world", channel, or control, those parts of it that are
considered conducive to learning. It's obviously an issue that bridges both
my educational and more generally social interests.
And although there's certainly nothing surprising about my relating to this
particular article in both of these online frameworks, doing so raises a different
issue. I've tended to keep my general and amorphous musings (those dealt with
in the Boidem) and my more clearly educationally directed pronouncements more
or less separate. But this separation might be considered, in and of itself, Boidem type
material. A year and a half ago I first attempted
to compare, or perhaps contrast, these two frameworks, but since then I've let
them develop independently, letting them intersect if they so wish, but not
forcing them to do so. As time passes, however, both of these frameworks have undergone
change, and I've become aware that rather than remaining independent of each
other, they've grown closer, in terms of both content and style. And this
in itself is an issue that merits further examination in the not too distant
future.