Tech & Revolution in Education - Ending Cycle of Failure - Ehrmann - 11 views
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Every five or ten years, when a major new computer chip, visual medium or telecommunications channel comes along, the trumpet is sounded: The revolution is about to happen
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But the revolution doesn't happen. By the time another major new technology appears a few years later the earlier predictions have been forgotten or shrugged off. If anyone wonders what went wrong, they are told that the old technology was obviously too slow or primitive. This cycle of failure has been repeated many times: mainframe computers, personal computers, videodiscs, graphical user interfaces, HyperCard, E-mail, CD-ROMs, Gopher, the Web.
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Moore's Law also has created waves of improvement in the processes on which education most relies: how people can get and use information and how they can communicate with one another
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Identifica de manera muy clara las problemáticas recurrentes en el discurso de revolución en educación a partir de la presencia de la tecnología, y de cómo olvidamos las 'predicciones fallidas' para seguir corriendo detrás de la siguiente ola tecnológica. Habla de seis barreras para la revolución, describiéndolas en detalle. Propone y describe luego siete estrategias que podrían hacer posible la revolución.