"We rob them of tomorrow."
- John Dewey
This is an interesting look at where education is going, but we don't know when it wll get there.
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Some day, I think we will be able to irrefutably credit someone or some company with re-designing education for the 21st century.
The same way Apple is credited with changing the music industry with the iPod and iTunes.
The same way Microsoft brought workforces into the digital age with MS Office.
The same way President John F. Kennedy put a man on the moon.
The solution could come from anywhere, but I don't think we've met them yet. They'll be disruptive. People will leap to point out reasons why they've failed (this happened with OLPC).
There will be plenty news stories about their failure.
Imitators will undermine them, causing a cloud of confusion and deceit.
Legacy and Tradition will denounce them, saying education should continue the way it always has.
The dust will settle and education will be positively changed forever…At least that's how I see it.
"If you're interested in the model of education, you don't start from a production line."
- Sir Ken Robinson
This video deserves to be seen by more people.
~Tim Brown, Change by Design
I cannot, for the life of me, remember who said this quote but it really stuck with me. I know that I read it in Nicholas Carr's book called The Shallows but I haven't been able to dig it up again.
I am the type of person who never did well on tests. It didn't matter if I studied or if I was familiar with the materials or not. I just have a hard time memorizing lots of specific data.
I worked much better in situations that required collaboration and on-the-spot thinking. It wasn't really valuable because test were always worth considerably more points than the in-class assignments.
Such is the nature of higher education.
