Clay Shirky is a visionary with a wonderful speaking style that is open and honest and he relates well with his audience. This reading was all about the future of technology in education. I included his video because it illustrates clearly coordinated group effort and he makes a clear argument for the benefit of that structure.
My comment:
Kimberly, I love your statement, “Students and their parents and communities have a common goal of knowledge, skills, and attitudes”, because that, to me, is the only way for education on any level to succeed. If any of the parties is in contrast to the end goal, the plan will fail and education or an educational tool will be unsuccessful. And for me, this is the concept that is not sufficiently grasped in today’s educational system: “Learners need to be motivated and need to see the reason behind the learning”. If for once, educators would understand that learners need to know why they are learning, as much as they need what they are learning, then perhaps the future of education as we know it would succeed. Learning must change because this question is going unheeded, which in my opinion loses our learners.
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