Sunday, February 28, 2010

The most tweeted remark from the 2010 NAIS annual conference...

... has to be a great quip by Pat Bassett in the session "The Power of
Transformation: Disrupting your Institution to Make it Relevant."

There are a number of versions out there of what Pat said, but they all are
close variations of the following:

"The death of education as we know it may lead to learning as we need it."

A live blog of the session by Jason Ramsden is available here:
http://bit.ly/dkfWZe
(A huge thanks to Jason and others (http://bit.ly/d4Sz3K) for making the
conference come alive for virtual attendees!)

But back to Pat's interesting observation, which seemed to resonate so
strongly with the edtech folks.

I can imagine John Dewey smiling benevolently on hearing this statement. I
can also imagine many Heads having a somewhat different expression.

Curious what others think?

Fred

--
Fred Bartels
Thinking about learning as we need it here:
http://eva2.wikispaces.com/

[ For info on ISED-L see https://www.gds.org/podium/default.aspx?t=128874 ]
Submissions to ISED-L are released under a creative commons, attribution, non-commercial, share-alike license.
RSS Feed, http://listserv.syr.edu/scripts/wa.exe?RSS&L=ISED-L