Saturday, June 16, 2012

Education: The Past, the Present and the Future « Cooperative Catalyst

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Education: The Past, the Present and the Future

Recently I read an article from District Administrator magazine entitled,
The Three New Pillars of 21st Century Learning”                                                                                 What happens when our basic assumptions about schooling no longer apply?
and it began:
The textbook, The lecturer and the classroom are three pillars of modern-day schooling that date back hundreds of years. Each was invented to solve a problem. The textbook was invented because information was scarce, the lecturer because teachers were few and the classroom because learning was local. These enduring icons persist into the Internet age, shaping our view of learning and driving the popularity of their digital grandchildren, things like iPad “textbooks” and the Kahn Academy “lectures.”
We’re getting ready to do our annual Curriculum, Assessment and Instruction  (CAI) Institute in my county (Albemarle, VA), and one piece of it is to look back over the lat 9 years of it, since this one will be our 10th!  The


Education: The Past, The Present and The Future #2

You know you’ve read a good post when it makes you have several different thoughts about something important.  While this post begins like another, it has a totally different ending…
Recently I read an article from District Administrator magazine entitled,
The Three New Pillars of 21st Century Learning”                                                                                 What happens when our basic assumptions about schooling no longer apply?
and it began:
The textbook, The lecturer and the classroom are three pillars of modern-day schooling that date back hundreds of years. Each was invented to solve a problem. The textbook was invented because information was scarce, the lecturer because teachers were few and the classroom because learning was local. These