21st Century Education Requires Lifewide Learning - Christopher Dede - Harvard Business... - 0 views
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Too often, I have seen educational technologies used to put "old wine in new bottles." Now, if we seize the moment, we not only can have new wine — such as peer mentoring anytime, anyplace — but also can move beyond the "bottle" of the stand-alone school to lifewide learning.
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In framing such alternative models, however, I find myself wrestling with the unpleasant truth that the primary barriers to altering curricular, pedagogical, and assessment practices towards any transformative vision of education are not conceptual, technical or economic, but instead psychological, political, and cultural. The largest challenges in moving beyond historic models of schooling are people's emotions and their typically unconscious beliefs, assumptions, and values. To be achieved, a transformative model must generate professional commitment, political will, and cultural enthusiasm - not an easy task.
