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When the Computer Takes Over for the Teacher - The Atlantic - 0 views

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shared by Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 19 Aug 15 - No Cached
  • "We’re at the point where the Internet pretty much supplies everything we need. We don’t really need teachers in the same way anymore."
  • I was overwhelmed by the number of articles all confirming what I had suspected: The relatively recent emergence of the Internet, and the ever-increasing ease of access to web, has unmistakably usurped the teacher from the former role as dictator of subject content. These days, teachers are expected to concentrate on the "facilitation" of factual knowledge that is suddenly widely accessible.
  • all computing devices—from laptops to tablets to smartphones—are dismantling knowledge silos and are therefore transforming the role of a teacher into something that is more of a facilitator and coach.
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  • It seems clear that they already have a distinct advantage over me as an individual teacher.
  • they all transform the teacher into a more facilitative role.
  • hey have more resources, more money, an entire staff of professionals, and they get to concentrate on producing their specialized content,
  • live-streaming and other technology are also allowing some modern churches to move toward a "multisite" format, one in which a single pastor can broadcast his sermons to satellite churches guided by pastors who—this might sound familiar—concentrate on the facilitation of a common itinerary.
  • There is a profound difference between a local expert teacher using the Internet and all its resources to supplement and improve his or her lessons, and a teacher facilitating the educational plans of massive organizations. Why isn’t this line being publicly and sharply delineated, or even generally discussed?
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 19 Aug 15
     
    Fascinating and scary look about how the internet and the access to the widest range of resources imaginable, many of them beyond the scope of our individual capacities, is changing the role of classroom teacher to facilitator, and the role of pastor to facilitator through multi-site transmission of the sermons delivered by the best faith orators. Makes me wonder about WLS facilitation, too. Atlantic, Michael Godsey, march 25, 2015.
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