November 28/12
It's really not about tech
but the potential
tech creates
Good alternatives &
great possibilities
do exist
To date, our model of education puts the teacher up front, with a vast quantity of knowledge to be forced into the empty brain of the student. That's hyperbolic of course but [throughout education] you see this implication of lack, scarcity, deficiency, unproductivity, lack of motivation....we need a major paradigm shift, from scarcity to abundance, from teacher as the regulator and enforcer to teacher as the inspirer and encourager.
Cathy Davidson, HASTAC, 11/1/12 www.hastac.org
edudemic, Oct.15, 2012
I think it's going to be a massive disruption of AP courses, because if you can get a credit from MIT for physics or a 5 on the AP physics course, which one is going to be more valuable? And I suspect that the MOOCs will be more affordable.
Michael B. Horn (Innosight Institute) quoted by Brian Warmoth, Educause 2012: 5 Ways Online Learning is Disrupting Education, 11/7/2012.
...memorization will continue to decline in importance as information becomes ever more readily available for reference, anytime and anywhere. Students will increasingly be able to focus on finding ways to use that raw information to solve problems, be creative, or answer more in-depth questions...
Katie Lepi, 8 Ways Google Glasses will Change Education, edudemic, 09/11/12
I don't even talk about curriculum any more. I think about a customized sequence of learning experiences that help students learn and demonstrate knowledge, skills and abilities.
Tom Vander Ark, 12 Trends Impacting the Evolution of Digital Content, Nov.6, 2012
Mentor?
Coach?
Whatever we are becoming,
we are no longer what we have
traditionally been...
How long does it have to be?
. . . and?