למידה, אינטרנט ... ומה שביניהם

Globalization will flow through the conduit of collaborative tools and new ways of communicating (as in new theories of communication) - both domains in which many educators have already accumulated five plus years experience. Perhaps it is also time to rethink what it means to educate? Maybe educators should be more like connection-makers, and less like content deliverers.

In many cases, students communicate more, construct original content more, and more often collaborate virtually with other people, than do their teachers. Those teachers who pretend to stand on higher ground, appear, to many of their students, to be standing on quicksand.

I wax hyperbole, but the point is that our times require a different kind of classroom, one that can no longer rely on gravity. We must invent a perpetual learning engine.

I hope to spend the next couple of weeks talking through some ideas concerning a flat classroom learning engine, most of which I am still forming. But I would like to begin with a list of characteristics for students in a flat classroom learning engine.

    Curious
    Self Directed Learners
    Intrinsic need to communicate
    Intrinsic need to influence
    Future Oriented
    Heritage Grounded