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From: bwk@mbunix.mitre.org (Barry W. Kort)
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Subject: Task-Oriented vs. Goal-Oriented Instruction
Keywords: Intention
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Date: 12 Mar 89 07:39:08 GMT
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In article <2564@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> gilbert@cs.glasgow.ac.uk
(Gilbert Cockton) writes:

 > The good guys in this world are the ones who don't need
 > Skinnerian programmed instruction.
 >
 > The topic is life, not the behavioural modification of the
 > mentally ill or deficient.

I notice that there are those who assign tasks and those who
delegate goals.  Like, Gilbert, I am goal-oriented.  I prefer
to adopt community goals.  I definitely don't like being treated
as if I were a programmable automaton.  I find it dehumanizing.

--Barry Kort