Disrupting Class: Student-Centric Education Is the Future | Edutopia - 0 views
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COETAIL Course1 Week1 edutopia Clayton Christensen coetail4
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Current Classrooms -- Teacher Centric: Standardization, which replaced personalization as public school enrollment rose in the late 1800s, still dictates the way subjects are taught
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Future Classrooms -- Student Centric: This model utilizes the teacher as mentor, problem solver, and support person
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Students partake in interactive learning with computers and other technology devices; teachers roam around as mentors and individual learning coaches; learning is tailored to each student's differences; students are engaged and motivated.
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the computers have not transformed the classroom, nor has their use boosted learning as measured by test scores
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An organization's natural instinct is to cram the innovation into its existing operating model to sustain what it already does
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target those who are not being served -- people we call nonconsumers. That way, all the new approach has to do is be better than the alternative -- which is nothing at all.
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disrupts that trajectory by offering a product or service that actually is not as good as that which companies are already selling.
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the disruptive innovation extends its benefits to people who, for one reason or another, are unable to consume the original product
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Instead, we must find areas of nonconsumption to deploy computer-based learning where it will be unencumbered by existing education processes.
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For computer-based learning to bring about a disruptive transformation, it must be implemented where the alternative is no class at all.