EDUC 628-Spring-08

Dr. Lowell http://durandus.com/phaedrus/2008/03/30/letting-go/  posts an article linking to Alec’s Letting Go blog, and the links to Bob Cringely’s  post-http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2008/pulpit_20080321_004574.html—where Dr. Lowell points out that these articles are interesting follow related to the “why teach” questions posed in our class.

 Based on my readings and after watching the Mr. Winkle video on Alec’s site, it seems that technology, the education of students today and students of the future can and will change everything.  To me, today it seems that technology is changing the culture of the students, and that that will change education, and not that education will change the culture. 

In order to focus on keeping the students interested, institutions need to adapt to the changes of the kids and their tech savvy ways.  Do you think it is possible that these kids will define the curriculum eventually?

My thoughts wonder to the Huxley book I read once about the future where babies are made in test tubes and conditioned…a stretch, but what I drift to when I think far into the future.

 I honestly cannot imagine no schools, like Dr. Lowell mentioned one time.  I expect it could happen one day, but perhaps not, if schools provide the technology to keep up with what students have access to outside of school.