THERE IS NOTHING WRONG HERE

Alan November’s Learning Communities website has a series of podcasts that push the educational system to rethink everything. Do yourself a favor and spend the time watching and listening to Alan and other forward thinking educators. My approach to teaching has been changing over the last two years, and now I feel empowered to keep moving forward. 

As will happen when you are digging through the Internet, one link lead to another and I had to read Teaching is dead, long live learning. I have watched Leigh Blackall’s screencast three times and I am still absorbing and processing his message. It is time for the 18th century factory model of education to die and a new model to be born.

Teaching is Dead, Long live learning is an iconoclastic statement aimed at the traditions of modernist education. It uses the sociological and economic impact of media technology, in particular the Internet and its strengthening of informal and networked learning, and calls the foreseeable end of the traditional roles of teachers and ultimately the school system. It is in this day and age that the ideas of Ivan Illich become more realistic…