| The Finnish people rose as one a in panel rebellion | | Print | |
| Terhi Kouvo | 18.12.2009 | National Affairs - News items [en] | ||||||
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Adult education professionals’ Finland is the promised land of panel discussions. However, participation options utilising social media are now needed in place of expert panel discussions.
Professor of adult education Jyri Manninen started the panel rebellion by criticising seminar organizers for their laziness. A badly organised panel is a bad form of interaction. “While I have seen one successful panel discussion in my life, I have seen a hundred failed ones. I have, therefore, often dared to voice a demand for a law prohibiting panel discussions,” he states in his Sivistys-net magazine blog in December 2009. Manninen calls educationists’ forced conversations ironically ‘panel pedagogy’. This includes “each person first telling his or her own stories X times for 15 minutes and then a general discussion is forced for the last 10 minutes.” HELP FROM SOCIAL MEDIA Options like social media applications are available. These promote interaction when adult education professionals take in the possibilities of e-Learning 2.0. A lecture comes to life when the questions and comments that participants send via Twitter or Qaiku are projected onto the wall behind the speaker. Jyri Manninen has met ample responses from his colleagues, but refuses to become head of the panel rebellion. “A panel may be arranged as long as it’s done well. The chairman must have a clear role, the speakers must have time limits, and the topics which are meant to be discussed must be discussed,” he says. |
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