Comments on: Reflecting on school 2.0 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2006/11/06/reflecting-on-school-20/ Weblog of Wesley Fryer Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:51:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Lynette http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2006/11/06/reflecting-on-school-20/comment-page-1/#comment-27901 Lynette Tue, 07 Nov 2006 20:45:17 +0000 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2006/11/06/reflecting-on-school-20/#comment-27901 Dare to dream. "How can we help large numbers of people to even imagine, much less support, a model of education which is NOT based on “seat time” and “sit and get” learning according to a rigorously defined and enforced bell schedule? Maybe online/virtual learning can and should play a role in this pedagogic transformation?" Many people do not even dare to dream of an alternate system, stepping outside the comfort zone of years of practice which has become ingrained within society is too daunting a task for a lot of practitioners. People take what they've learnt through their own experiences and teach (or expect teachers to teach) in the same way they were taught. (I am over simplifying and generalising to a large extent.) The bell system is only one component of a variety of structural issues which impede change. I agree with your following observations: "we need to advocate for the tools and instructional methods which will lead to the learning outcomes we want to support and promote... Consider the learning outcomes we want to see in school, the school environment which is most supportive of those outcomes, and the expectations which therefore should be conferred upon educators entrusted with designing and staffing the learning environments of the 21st century." At the moment we should find stregnth from the tortoise in that old fable: "slow and steady wins the race". Dare to dream.
“How can we help large numbers of people to even imagine, much less support, a model of education which is NOT based on “seat time” and “sit and get” learning according to a rigorously defined and enforced bell schedule? Maybe online/virtual learning can and should play a role in this pedagogic transformation?”
Many people do not even dare to dream of an alternate system, stepping outside the comfort zone of years of practice which has become ingrained within society is too daunting a task for a lot of practitioners. People take what they’ve learnt through their own experiences and teach (or expect teachers to teach) in the same way they were taught. (I am over simplifying and generalising to a large extent.)

The bell system is only one component of a variety of structural issues which impede change. I agree with your following observations:
“we need to advocate for the tools and instructional methods which will lead to the learning outcomes we want to support and promote… Consider the learning outcomes we want to see in school, the school environment which is most supportive of those outcomes, and the expectations which therefore should be conferred upon educators entrusted with designing and staffing the learning environments of the 21st century.”

At the moment we should find stregnth from the tortoise in that old fable: “slow and steady wins the race”.

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