Did you ever wonder?

By  | 2/22/2008 | Filed under: Globalization

Bill Farren, a technology integration facilitator in the Dominican Republic, created a response to Karl Fisch’s Did you know? slides:

Farren asks:

How is preparing students to enter an economic and industrial system that is at war with itself preparing them for the future? Wouldn’t we be better off educating people so that they can improve their chances of living well on a planet with a finite biosphere? Shouldn’t the purpose of an education have to do with living well, not with supporting economies?

In other words, in an education world dominated by measurement regimes, are we missing something?

Makes me wonder…

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Dr. John Moravec is a faculty member in the Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development and the Innovation Studies/Master of Liberal Studies graduate programs at the University of Minnesota. He is the principal of Education Futures LLC; a co-founder of the Horizon Forum, a roundtable on the future of education at all levels; and is the editor of Education Futures. He can be emailed at john@educationfutures.com.

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2 Responses to Did you ever wonder?

  1. Cristóbal Cobo on 2/24/2008 at 13:59

    Good video Dr!, a lot to things to think in relation with that…
    Maybe you would like to take a look of
    http://www.2mminutes.com/
    (if you haven’t yet)
    best
    Cris

  2. Cristóbal Cobo on 2/24/2008 at 14:59

    Good video Dr!, a lot to things to think in relation with that…
    Maybe you would like to take a look of
    http://www.2mminutes.com/
    (if you haven’t yet)
    best
    Cris

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