Leading theorists on shifting views of education. RobinGood's videos.

Twelve Changes

Rodd Lucier, The Clever Sheep

“The new business isn't the same as the old business, just with computers.”

That's a special case. -Seth Godin 

“…let’s not forget that merely bringing Web 2.0 tools into the classroom misses the point… adding blogging or wikis or even global collaborative projects to our curricula is not going to magically transform our static classrooms into interest-driven communities, and it certainly is not going to prepare the students to safely and effectively navigate 'networked publics.'"

Teaching how to learn -Konrad Goglowski

"Any institutionally-created, operated, or controlled environment in which participants are lured in either by mimicking pre-existing open or naturally formed environments, or by force, through a system of punishments or rewards.A situation in which an authority figure or an institutional power forces those below him/her into social or quasi-social situations."

Defining ‘Creepy Treehouse’ -Jared Stein

“Rather than seeing socializing and play as hostile to learning, educational programs could be positioned to step in and support moments when youth are motivated to move from friendship-driven to more interest- driven forms of new media use. This requires a cultural shift and a certain openness to experimentation and social exploration that is generally not characteristic of educational institutions…” 

“…the content, ways of relating, and skills that youth value are highly variable depending on what kinds of social groups they associate with. This diversity in forms of literacy means that it is problematic to develop a standardized set of benchmarks to measure levels of new media and technical literacy.”

Living and Learning with New Media 

-The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning

“I know, I know. Even now you are thinking, “but Dad, wouldn’t just going to college be easier?” It might, yes. And depending on what you end up wanting to do, college might still be the best answer. But it might not. And I want to remind you that in my own experience, all of the “learning” I did in all of the college classrooms I’ve spent time in does not come close to the learning that I’ve done on my own for the simple reason that now I am learning with people who are just as (if not more) passionate to “know” as I am. And that is what I want for you, to connect to people and environments where your passions connect…”

Dear Kids, You Don’t Have to Go to College -Will Richardson

“… does someone go into teaching because they are curious or because they like to teach?"

-Melissa Smith (commenting on Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach’s “Why Change?")

"First proposition: the campus, like the computer, is a technology, an instructional technology.

Second proposition: there are many students for whom the lecture hall and notetaking is a poor instructional technology, and who do not learn much in the conventional classroom

Third  proposition: the campus is a very expensive instructional technology." 

The Campus: The Old Imperialism?  Innovate blog

“The wisdom of crowds comes not from the consensus decision of the group, but from the aggregation of the ideas/thoughts/decisions of each individual in the group. ‘Paradoxically, the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act as independently as possible.’” (quoting James Suroweicki in The Wisdom of Crowds)

One of us is smarter than all of us -Kathy Sierra