Here's a new Blog from an ASU professor (James Paul Gee) on the future of educators and education... There are a lot of really great concepts and ideas in this one as well. Very thought provoking. I can identify with finding solutions outside of the box. But, there a few ideas that I feel we should consider and run with...
Making Education Sexy
Teachers learning along with their students
Fan fictions to develop writing
Just in time language
"Passion Communities"
De-professionalized teachers
Courtesy of EDUTOPIA
3 comments:
James has a keen insight to the way education needs to change her in America. I can personally relate to when he was talking about playing a new game. He read the manual and it made no sense, so he deicded to play it anyways. After playing around with the game, he then looked at the manual again and then he got it. I have done that myself, sometimes we need the visual cues (see the whole picture) in order to comprehend material or whatever we are trying to do.
The other item he talked about was on collaboration and solving real problems. Competition is every where now. Globalization has changed how we do business everyday. Additionally, education will need to go through a "pardigm shift" as James stated.
Posted by Annette M. Gallardo
“Kids not just using knowledge as facts but knowledge to produce”! This is the key to education and I believe most students over look this simple yet insightful thought. Working on a university campus, I see students studying, more like cramming, right before a test so they can regurgitate it on a piece of paper 5 minutes later. They are just learning and using knowledge as fact, and I certainly was a fact producer in undergrad. Now almost 8 years later in graduate school, I realize the importance of learning to produce, learning to understand and teach/share with others, not just to answer true/false questions.
Hey,
It was an incredibly insightful clip that was presented but due to recent changes in today's economy I wonder how realistic his "collaborative learning and problem solving approach" will be. I'm sure you've read in the papers and seen in the movies (if not it's posted on CNN for today) that ASU just laid off 200+ faculty and staff and are thinking about introducing 1000 student enrollment classes...as in...there will be 1000 students in some classes! I'm curious about the problem solving approach the faculty will take to this new challenge....
Chanda
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