Re: Is a school's core curriculum like a music CD?

Maybe we need to make the semantic and intellectual shift away from "Information Technology" towards "Process Technology" - in other words, the point is less about transmitting information, and more about analyzing and understanding the process by which "information" and "knowledge" are constructed.

I'm still chewing this over - Fred, thanks again for providing the intellectual catalyst, and to everyone else in the thread for pushing the ideas forward.

Cheers,

Bill

----- Original Message ----
From: Fred Bartels <fredbartels@gmail.com>
To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Sent: Sun, April 4, 2010 7:50:34 AM
Subject: Re: Is a school's core curriculum like a music CD?

It was a call to explore the question that perhaps information
technology is going to increasingly make it clear to students that there are
lots of alternatives

On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 8:21 AM, Bassett, Patrick <bassett@nais.org> wrote:
> It's interesting that even the radical notions of the web replacing
> place-based schooling default to a conversation about where students will
> access content, when content is only the raw material and means, not the
> essence of schooling, which for kids, especially, is largely a socializing
> and cultivating process that must happen, at least partly, in the context of
> caring and inspiring adults and pro-social peers, not to mention the place
> where students learn how to team and lead most conveniently, before they'll
> do that remotely in the future.
>
> Cheers.
>
> PFB

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