If our teaching institutions ever became what they
claimed to be, learning institutions, there wouldn't
be that much of a problem.
Another potential option which might be useful to
explore, one which we've not really delved here and I
don't think anyone else has delved either: from the
"consumer" end, forming organized teams of learners,
which answer mainly to each other within the team and
which take free advantage of today's lavish
information resources. That might emerge "straight"
from families allied in their wish for their progeny
to do well, and/or it might emerge from our
corporations which have gotten desperate at the lack
of qualified competent employees graduating our
schools, and/or it might emerge from some of the
present developments of the oriental martial arts
movement in the western world, and/or it might emerge
from any number of other possible roots.
If there is interest here we can have a look at a
probably significant chunk of the future. Your
thoughts on whether, how and why such "learning teams";
might replace part of our present educational
structure? ....win
--- Tapani Kudjoi < tapina.apina%40gmail.com">tapina.apina
gmail.com> wrote:
> Times have changed before and they will change
> again. Information is
> everywhere, if we teach kids to find, evaluate and
> use it, there is no
> limit to what they can learn.
> the school system has established networks, social
> status and funding.
> I don't believe, that they will just disappear,
> atleast not in the
> next twenty years. If information technology becomes
> ubiquitous
> network of environments, applications, information
> and people, schools
> will also have to become decentralized social
> constructions to meet
>; the new requirements of people.
>
> Tapina
>
> > You said it. Bottom line is that now at schools,
> even
>; > at universities,there is less density and
> intensity of
> > information than outside them, the reverse of the
> > condition which gave rise to them in the first
> place.
> >
>; > Yet we are losing something when we let liberal
> arts
>; > education disappear. I've got to catch a plane
> now so
> > I'll have to relate another time what it is we're
> > losing with liberal arts going down the tubes.
> Yes,
>; > schools will have to make major adaptations and
> > adjustments, or go under. ...win
>
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