it done will be harder than passing health care reform and it's going
to be many of us who stand in the way. Having said that I suspect that
our resistance could be driven by an aversion to radical change
because that change will not be understood by our clients. It will be
a long hard sell to convince people that our children will be better
served by moving our program to a very different paradigm.
---Steve
On Sunday, February 28, 2010, Fred Bartels <fredbartels@gmail.com> wrote:
> ... has to be a great quip by Pat Bassett inthe 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
>
--
Stephen Edele
Head of School
The Harbor School
Vashon, WA
[ 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
