Note: This article is a part of the Designing Education 3.0 series at Education Futures.
Little evidence suggests that new technologies in the classroom are being used to transform educational paradigms. At last year’s ASOMEX technology conference, ISTE’s Don Knezek pointed out that student graduation rates — and their rates of interest in schools — have dropped over the past few decades. At the same time, investments in educational information and communications technologies continue to expand. If technologies are not making an impact in the classroom today, should they power Education 3.0?
Yes, but we need to use technologies differently. Moreover,
The problem is that Society 1.0 schools most often use technologies to teach old information rather than taking advantage of them to generate new knowledge.The use of technologies must be purposive and expand to the realm of adopting social technologies in schools. To harness the potential of open, socio-technological systems, 3.0 schools will need to rebuild themselves not on software, not on hardware, but on mindware. Such new technologies integrate the development of imagination, creativity and innovation –all critical in the 21st century workplace. Mindware maximizes the potentials for human capital development that ambient awareness technologies permit.
Is your school investing in mindware technologies?
I’m thinking along the lines that this really is a natural human potential movement. Seismic shifts on multiple fronts and the old paradigm can no longer exist. Despite and because of control. halelujah!
Simultaneously the potential for ultimate control is tremendous.
Could education be a human potential model?