Ann,
Well I came here, and I tried to move your comment to the comment section but ran into technical difficulties, and moved it back. Now I don’t know what problems that may have created, and I apologize for anything amiss.
As it turns out I have a lot to say about your comment Ann, so maybe that snafu was a good thing. Yes, I was quite surprised to learn that University professors could actually be expected to teach without any “training” or education in teaching. Knowing the content considered knowledge enough. And the opposite for K-12.
As you point out the obvious, neither one appears to make any sense!! And now this apparent insanity extended to the online world where the responsibility for the technology operating correctly seems to fall between the cracks, and it’s the absolute bottom line for doing anything in that realm. Hmmmm.
I suppose there are reasons why the status quo is the way it is, hopefully there’s some rational explanation.
In any event, in my view, it’s all going to go through a tremendous reshuffling and reorganization, and education as we know it today will not be recognizable to students and teachers of ten years from now.
And a huge part of that belief in change is that I don’t think the present educational institutions are organized in such a way as to be able to adapt to a student centered model of instruction/learning.
As Naomi states. Since it’s going to be a battle for the desktop, and online digitized eyeballs and ears of students, the victor is likely to be private media corporations who have some idea of how to “capture imaginations” and the funds to invest to make it happen. My hope is that those corporations will be forced by the same dynamic of user centered experience to enable technologies dramatically more than they do today. The beginnings of online user centered experience are already here, and growing exponentially.
Will be interesting to see how this develops, and how present educational institutiions and teachers, find their way in a brave new world.
Griffith, JD, (2006) “Jason and the Arghh-o-nauts” Waiohinu, HI: OmniLand
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John
