chools resist change, because they are
designed to resist change. They are cultural organizations, and
cultural organizations are not supposed to change. Cultures are
designed to preserve existing solutions to
problems—considerable social and economic capital goes into
developing culturally valued solutions to problems and change is
risky. Stability
reduces risk—“change is bad”—and our
schools have been designed to focus on the knowledge transmission mode
of learning.
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This is just what many teachers and faculty members are saying, “We don’t have time for this. We are good teachers, and we can continue to serve our students well with the instructional strategies we have always used. Besides, with the time demands on us, we don’t have time to learn this new technology. As good teachers, we are doing well with our students and we don’t need to go through this transition.”
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The learning revolution is about constructivist learning, and these new communication and information technologies allow us to facilitate constructive learning in ways that we could never do before. They are becoming cognitive amplifiers that will accelerate learning and the development of new knowledge in the same ways that machines accelerated production during the industrial revolution.
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