{"id":1002,"date":"2007-07-08T17:27:37","date_gmt":"2007-07-08T21:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=1002"},"modified":"2007-07-08T17:27:37","modified_gmt":"2007-07-08T21:27:37","slug":"when-have-you-had-online-aha-moments-reacting-to-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=1002","title":{"rendered":"When have you had online &quot;aha&quot; moments reacting to others?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in five years, my distance-learning course is asynchronous, without a live chat, and this poses an interesting challenge. <\/p>\n<p>Oh, heck, let me be honest: at some level I&#8217;m terrified at the prospect of an asynchronous-only class, because my teaching style relies heavily on the timed revelation of material and ideas, commonly&nbsp;in one of the following ways:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Getting students to commit themselves to some perspective or a factual or policy position and then reveal information designed to shift their perspective radically; or\n<li>Intervening in a discussion to push students to rethink their ideas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When I&#8217;m lucky, setting up a discussion allows peers to educate each other (why students who are over 25 are invaluable in my undergraduate classes!). But that still requires interaction in a live context. While students do tell me that my reading assignments often get them to think differently, the live interaction is still crucial to some of the ways I teach. <\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t have that in the fall, and I&#8217;m trying to think about the student &#8220;aha&#8221; experience and asynchronous interaction. So I&#8217;m asking my online readers for some personal story: can you remember a <em>specific<\/em> time when you were reacting to someone else or someone else was reacting to you online, <strong>not live<\/strong>, and your perspective on something shifted?&nbsp; If so, please tell me what it was (hey, you can even link to it!) and what made that <em>aha<\/em> moment possible? <\/p>\n<p>For those who comment, <strong><em><u>thank you!!!<\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in five years, my distance-learning course is asynchronous, without a live chat, and this poses an interesting challenge. Oh, heck, let me be honest: at some level I&#8217;m terrified at the prospect of an asynchronous-only class, because my teaching style relies heavily on the timed revelation of material and ideas, commonly&nbsp;in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-ga","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}