Sunday, February 28, 2010

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

We will start to learn when we abolish school.....

On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 7:53 AM, Fred Bartels <fredbartels@gmail.com> wrote:

> ... 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/
>
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Norman Constantine
Director of Technology Integration
Wakefield School
The Plains, VA

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