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Maureen Greenbaum's List: Future Education
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Dec 22, 10
Next Generation Learning Challenges - that will accelerate the integration of technology in ways that substantially improve learning.
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number of their professors, are asking: Why require students to buy expensive textbooks every year, when the Internet is awash in information, much of it free?
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Washington State's financially strapped Legislature, which foots much of the textbook bill for community-college students on state financial aid, has wondered the same thing
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a printed book is static, seemingly out of step in this dynamic digital age, and so can no longer serve successfully as the most important central organizing entity for learning today.
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"The knowledge of an academic course no longer pre-exists the course."
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Just 22 percent of students in the United States complete an associate degree within three years of starting, and only 57 percent complete a bachelor's degree within six years,
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large numbers of students who need remedial courses and drop out,
- Mastery learning so we don't just pass students only to have them fail in higher level courses - Maureen Greenbaum on 2011-05-14
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May 24, 11
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effective education will engage learners' passions
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a class in which students are assessed by the questions they ask is probably much more effective than one in which the answers count
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Expectations of a “new normal” are forming: dynamic content—anytime, anywhere and on any device. And those expectations aren’t just for recreational consumption—they’re extending into the educational space as well.
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—educators are as well. We need to align the way teaching is delivered with the way information is now consumed.
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The scariest concept to me is kids going to school and schools being the one place where kids have the least exposure to technology, rather than the most. When I was a kid, that’s where our computer was. The first place I saw a computer was in my school. Nowadays, many times, kids go to school, they put away the smartphone, they put away the laptops, and they pretty much put away pretty much everything that’s driving growth in our world.
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April 10, 2011
The Netflix Effect: When Software Suggests Students' Courses
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handful of colleges have begun using similar recommendation systems to help students pick their courses—a step that could change GPA's and career paths.
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instead of using failure as a valuable teaching tool, education discourages it as, well, a sign of failure
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each assignment is graded based on its proximity to success, and the final grade is determined by the aggregate of each individual grade, failure is preserved and carried with the student throughout the course. The result is that students become failure-adverse, demoralized by failure, and focused more on the grade than the education.
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"Degrees will continue to play an important role," Ms. Gorbis says. "But it's very hard to assess higher-level skills simply by knowing that someone has a degree." For that reason, she believes, portfolios and specialized tests will become more important to employers than simple course transcripts. And that, in turn, might lead students to lower their costs by doing as much of their learning as possible outside the high-tuition confines of a traditional degree program.
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With portfolios like those, he says, he could have won the old arguments about whether degrees were necessary
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The goal, beyond introducing students to the study of the humanities, is to build a bridge to higher education for those who have never gone to college or who dropped out.
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