- It should base its legitimacy on its own strengths, not the weaknesses of the incumbent system.
- It should properly assess its own weaknesses and underlying principles.
- It should avoid 'Either-Or' thinking in favour of imaginative and ingenious solutions that acknowledge the benefits of the incumbent.
- It should avoid a pure focus on the future, instead seeking to build upon the past in such a way that it represents the dynamic present.
- It should examine its own organisation and structure; the opposite of too much organisation is not having none at all.
- It should be evaluated in terms of how well it generates authentic experience.
- It should be applied in such a way that the teacher is able to bring their experience to bear.
- Any expression of 'freedom' in education should be well defined; is it meant for each discrete moment, or is it a general theme? Freedom in education is best a means to an end rather than an end in itself.
- Students always learn far more than the thing they are particularly studying. What are the implicit lessons from an education 2.0 experience?
I think that Dewey would be an enthusiastic yet cautious adopter of education 2.0; he would be very suspicious about claims that education 2.0 could revolutionise and 'solve' all of education's problems, as he is of all 'Either-Or' situations. He would also see in it rich opportunities for social expression and collaboration. Still, I imagine that his end question would ultimately be, "What does this add to a purposeful education?"
Plenty to consider here in terms of education 2.0 advocacy... and some different fodder for edubloggers (Illich and Friere, everyone?)
1 comments:
I think you are modelling a good approach to learning theory here. One problem with web2.0 is that it increases the trivial writing to reflective reading ratio.
Points 4 and 9 struck a chord with me, pointing out the need to integrate new ideas and tools into a broader framework.
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