Here’s an interesting video with a bunch of educators talking about how the future might work. Names i recognise include Daniel Pink and Greg Black (of education.au).
i’ve taken some brief notes on what the educators are talking about, but haven’t really commented with my own response. Many people have been saying this kind of thing in recent years:
- Schools are like factories, following models of the industrial age;
- students have more enriched experience outside of schools than in;
- US schools rank lowest out of all industries surveyed for technology integration;
- relationship, community, connectivity and access are keywords here;
- students are inhabiting the “not quite synchronous” space of twitter;
- students learn at home, in libraries, in museums and online;
- people wander around collecting data in the city – that’s learning (???this was a strange point);
- why stick with a classroom system when you could move to a “community system”?
- it’s about connecting students to opportunities that will shift their learning experience;
- here are the tools to connect with teachers around the world, swap ingredients for teaching and learning;
- it’s not about standards – jobs of the future do not call for the “vending machine approach” to education;
- The literacies of the future are about synthesis, understanding context, working with teams, multi-disciplinary – not memorising facts, but how to find information, collaborate and problem-solve with it;
- We are witnessing “the death of education, the dawn of learning” – an exciting and evolutionary time.
What do you think? Does education need a “revolution”.. or will it continue to evolve in its own good time?