I've been very engaged by some conversations going on around how education as a whole needs to evolve, to equip us for the world as it'll be in a decade or less. In particular, there's a growing feeling that:
- we need to lose the outdated infrastructure for education that puts the teacher in an unneccessarily domininant role
- the traditional competitive, metrics-driven measurements of 'educational success' are no longer standing us in good stead, and indeed create un-necessary damage to learners' self-esteem
- education shouldn't be about 'delivering' set chunks of 'technical' knowledge. Ideally,. we'd move to a world where learners gain the skills of rigorous enquiry, and acquire the behaviours that will allow them to construct the knowledge and skills they need, in a manner that accommodates their individual learning styles.
But of course, it's important that people have a clear idea of their required learning outcomes, and what 'success looks like' in each case - otherwise we descend into chaos.
In this regard, I'm very excited about having gotten involved with P2P! collaborative learning, without the unhelpful competitive drag of traditional learning environments - fan-flipping-tastic!
http://new.p2pu.org/en/groups/
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