Friday, January 31, 2003

Just Bloggin..   This may be a bit over the top, but my former student asst. with AS really liked it: tellio II : How I Teach and Why It Is So Hard. Quote: "I have tried to convince them that weblogs are the most protean tool for learning ever made. Like a furnace and anvil, a weblog can make most of its own learning tools. It is self-contained yet all-connected. It is portable yet it is rooted. It is an imaginative journal with a lock and key yet it is fearlessly open to modification and criticism. It is self-governing yet is subject to social control. I am almost afraid of what it will do to certain of my students. Tools transform us whether we will or no. What will this do to them? And more to the point, will it, on balance, do more for them?" [Serious Instructional Technology] 5:08:08 PM    comment [] Asperger's, sense of self, Magnolia I spoke with a young woman college student yesterday who talked about "feeling lost" since shedding many of her AS qualities.  "I miss being alone with my books and being able to lash out at people whenever I please."  She also said that she misses her "obsessive" special interests.  Now she mostly thinks about her friends and social activities and so on.  She says that she's depressed and no longer has a real sense of who she is. I've heard a similar story from another male college student with AS. This raises an important question of whether we are really helping by "successfully" integrating them into "neurotypical" society.  One of my AS students tells me that this blog reminds him of a specific character (William H. Macy) in the movie Magnolia. 4:41:33 PM    comment []

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