Student Brainstorm keeping it real: a discussion and brainstormn with students to see where academic ideas and students' actual learning experiences match in "real-world" terms. Start with just the topic, as open-ended as possible. Only introduce specific questions later.

Discuss aspects of traditional learning

Transition informal to formal

• what was your learning setting like growing up, and how has the transition to University learning been?
• formal? informal?
• are cultural learning aspects lost in this transition? Do you treat Uni as you might a village?

Aversion to Q authority

• do you ask questions of lecturer in class? why or why not? what affects this?
• do you ask questions of lecturer after class?
• do you ask questions of lecturer outside of classroom setting?
• do you ask questions of peers in class? outside of class?
• by email? discussion boards?

Group learning - "loneliness of books"

• where do you study?
• do you prefer to study alone or in groups?
• did you learn alone or in groups growing up?
• what of computers: alone or in groups?
• do you think of computers like books or more like movies?

Language

• what language is your input, output?
• what anguage do you discuss in?
• what language do you think in?

Rote to Interpretive

• "pacific emphasis on context vs. western emphasis on universals"
• looking for directed learning or a loose, open resource?

Computers and traditional learning methods

• Q: which cultural restraints apply to computer usage?
  • groups, aversion to q authority
  • how do you use computers?
  • what do you do on them?
  • alone, in groups?
  • where?
• Q: is computer an authority?
  • ... as horse's mouth of worthwhile knowledge? do you trust what you read on a computer?
  • ...as aversion to Q authority? are you more or less likely to ask questions of a computer prorgam than a lecturer?