What does it mean to be a teacher and a learner in this rapidly changing world- the Club of Rome in it's influential book in the late 70's- No limits of learning mentioned that we are faced with a 'world problematique' referring to the almost perfect storm that we have created for ourselves: A converging mass of ecosystem, economic, and social system issues that are all in largely negative states and the seeming inability to respond to these issues through the many institutional systems we have set up. The analysis performed by the Club of Rome applies today just as it did more than 30 years ago.
The solution to this answer would be they called 'innovative education' some other thinkers out in the landscape of pedagogy, including people like Ken Low- Chief Curriculum Developer for Leadership Calgary have come up with a synonymous term- such as 'adaptive education'. In contrast to conventional learning- which meets efficiency goals that we had during the industrial era, adaptive education stresses learning that prizes, the ability to discern what is significant and be able to correct for errors in judgement. It would be a mistake to think that this is a case for conventional vs adaptive learning systems. We need both conventional learning systems that are really good in delivery of standardized bits of knowledge, where certain procedures need to be mastered in order to do routinized tasks, as well as adaptive learning systems which stress the ability to problem solve, judge accurately and with the ability to sense, detect and correct for errors in judgement This kind of education asks its students and teacher have their attention focused squarely on real challenges. The innovation capacities that are built up as a result of such types of learning balance out the effects of conventional learning which tends to lead people to think that knowledge is contained and useful in isolated and disconnected bits. Sir Ken Robinson in some of his work, seems to be helpfully exploring some of this terrain under the idea of 'creativity in education'.
There are a number of educational voices that we are going to highlight in this blog- some of the stories will be drawn from widely differing fields of endeavor, however all of them will explore the significant terrain uncovered by the idea of adaptive education. One such educator who seem to have turned the world of teachers everywhere upside down is Sal Khan founder of Khan Academy who was recently featured in a recent edition of Wired . His contributions are incredible in the landscape of conventional education and poses some serious questions for students- what would you do if you could seriously have a world class tutor on any conventional subject- what use is conventional teaching schools at that point?
The solution to this answer would be they called 'innovative education' some other thinkers out in the landscape of pedagogy, including people like Ken Low- Chief Curriculum Developer for Leadership Calgary have come up with a synonymous term- such as 'adaptive education'. In contrast to conventional learning- which meets efficiency goals that we had during the industrial era, adaptive education stresses learning that prizes, the ability to discern what is significant and be able to correct for errors in judgement. It would be a mistake to think that this is a case for conventional vs adaptive learning systems. We need both conventional learning systems that are really good in delivery of standardized bits of knowledge, where certain procedures need to be mastered in order to do routinized tasks, as well as adaptive learning systems which stress the ability to problem solve, judge accurately and with the ability to sense, detect and correct for errors in judgement This kind of education asks its students and teacher have their attention focused squarely on real challenges. The innovation capacities that are built up as a result of such types of learning balance out the effects of conventional learning which tends to lead people to think that knowledge is contained and useful in isolated and disconnected bits. Sir Ken Robinson in some of his work, seems to be helpfully exploring some of this terrain under the idea of 'creativity in education'.
There are a number of educational voices that we are going to highlight in this blog- some of the stories will be drawn from widely differing fields of endeavor, however all of them will explore the significant terrain uncovered by the idea of adaptive education. One such educator who seem to have turned the world of teachers everywhere upside down is Sal Khan founder of Khan Academy who was recently featured in a recent edition of Wired . His contributions are incredible in the landscape of conventional education and poses some serious questions for students- what would you do if you could seriously have a world class tutor on any conventional subject- what use is conventional teaching schools at that point?
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