Educational Change Challenge

Do we know what we are doing? Does society know what it wants? Are we still working towards reform... Ask yourself...

Who seriously believes that locking 25 students in a small room with one adult for
several hours each day is the best way for them to be "educated"?

Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way.
-- George Evans

Why do we think every 6 year old is going to be at the same place in math, english and all the other subjects so we clump them together.

We already live in a time of disconnect, where the classroom has stopped reflecting the world outside its walls. The classroom is born of an industrial mode of thinking.

Greatest hurdle in ed reform is that society doesn't have a clear vision of what school is for

"If you put a doctor of 100 years ago in today's operating room, she would be lost, yet if you placed a teacher of 100 years ago into one of today's classrooms she wouldn't skip a beat. "
Molebash 1999

Moving from the one-room schoolhouse to the one-world schoolhouse is now a reality."
Cisco Systems

"If we don't focus on the experience dimension of learning, we run the risk of mistaking the publishing of information for learning and training"
Elliott Masie

In education the Use it or lose it rule may mean If you don't use tech for learning , you may lose relevance. An educator must be relevant.

Teachers need to exist in the spaces the students exist, understand their culture. You have no credibility if you are not where they are.

"Because the generation of students that I am teaching is an instant pudding, drive-through, microwave, download-it-from-the-Internet, media-driven generation, I know that I must be innovative to keep their interest and to inspire in them a creative curiosity."
Doug Martin

Do I create lifelong learners.

Am I preparing students for my age or theirs?

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Education
• Reform
• change
• elearning
• technology
• darren
• cannell

[mandysnowbird]

Thanks for this 2 minute concise summary of what challenges all of us interested in education and how it is best accomplished today. I am sharing on the face book page for my book: "Americas School Bus. Its Time to get off." It is a call to action for education change. Nice work!

[dcannell]

@mandysnowbird Thanks for the comment.

[LightspeedSystemsInc]

The challenge for educators and school districts is to try to catch up to how their students are consuming and sharing information. You bring up many good points in this video, thanks for sharing.

[dcannell]

@LightspeedSystemsInc I like the statement consuming and sharing information...thanks for the comment.

[mochaluv49]

Let's be real. I am all for change in education....but let's admit that it was necessary for students to be clumped together with like-aged students for 8 hours a day because their parents are at work for those same 8 hours. Because those parents left the rural farms and moved to cities, and because child-labor laws prevented young children from working in those same factories. So until we really answer that question...they system isn't going to change much.

[dcannell]

@mochaluv49 It is awful if my chosen vocation is strictly a gloried babysitting service....I understand what you are saying, and I do not feel that the hours and time of day is not so much the issue in education it is the method in which we deliver and our goals...but thanks for the comment.

[makeiteasyable]

you are right .

[mochaluv49]

@dcannell

While I think there are changes that can happen to the structure of education. When I close the door and I am with my students, I don't act like a glorified babysitter. We have a lot to accomplish, and we are about the business of World History. I think that teachers need to control that which we can, and we have plenty of impact and opportunity when we close the door.

Thanks for the dialogue.

[XsbcatfangX]

It's awesome because My school is using Itouches for leaning. If you think about it, As time goes by- Technology gets batter at a shorter period of time than before.

[dcannell]

@allpurposelibrarian Since I have gained access to the information at my finger tips on the web as an adult I have not gone into a library for myself. I have taken my young son but any information that I need, I have been able to access it on the web. So, before the web I used the library as a source of information and something better has come along so does the libraries role need to change?