Frederick Taylor, in early 20th century, proposed the "Scientific Method" for manufacturing that used data from the production line to inform management and transform craft production to mass production. In the age of big data and learning analytics, are we seeing Taylor's ideas - masquerading as progressive "personalized learning" - forced upon unwitting education systems where all that matters is the what rather than the why?
Graham Brown-Martin is the founder of the global think tank Learning Without Frontiers (LWF) that brought together renowned educators, technologists and creative individuals to begin a new global dialogue about the future of learning. Responsible for some of the most provocative and challenging debates about education, Graham left LWF in 2013 to pursue new programs and ideas to transform the way we learn, teach and live.
Graham Brown-Martin spent two years researching, traveling, writing and editing video to create the transmedia work and third WISE Book, Learning {Re}imagined: How the connected society is transforming learning, published by Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.
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