Dreyfus 2

In Chapter 2 of the book, Dreyfus pretty much talk about Traditional Learning being compared to Distance Learning. In this chapter, Dreyfus talks about the six different stages of learning. The first stage, Novice is where you learn the basics of a task that you are trying to achieve. Next is the advanced beginner where you maximized instead of rules, develop a set of schedule that you get enough practice, but not too long. After the advanced beginner has developed his skills, the person moves onto the competence stage where you start to explore you own potential.
When your body eventually remembers what to do and you have have to think about it anyone, you have arrived at the Proficiency stage. The last two stages are Expert and Master where they are the degrees of Mastery. At these two stages the learner need to explores their telepresence.
Dreyfus talked about the differences between traditional and distance learning. Unlike traditional learning, distance learning is only good for the two stages of learning because the competence stage limitations of distance learning occurs due to lack of a teacher helping the student. Traditional learning is good for one on one teaching between a student and a teacher.
I personally think that distance learning is only good when you don't have time to actually set down in a classroom for about a hour or two due to an inflexible schedule. I remember most of my friends who attend large school in Florida such as Florida Atlantic University and University of Florida take some online classes due to their tight schedules.
One of the topics that we talked about in class this past week was the question being that if myspace and facebook is private and public. You can make an argument for both sides either being a public or private site. In the case of being private that facebook you request someone as a friend before you can even some their profile. On both sites, you can set your profile on private in order to prevent some users from viewing it. Also users under the age of 18 have their profliles set automatically on private to protect them from sex predators online. To support an argument of myspace and facebook being public sites that you can view someone's if they're in the same network as you regardless if you are friends with them or not. Many people put their personal information and pictures on myspace and facebook. People are willing post pictures of daily activities on myspace and facebook. I remember some of my friends posted pictures of themselves getting wasted at parties, serving their country overseas, etc. It seems that most users on facebook and myspace have a purpose to inform and entertain other users especially their about their daily lives.