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The "professor versus laptop (or other wireless access device)" issue is a false construct if we view technology-mediated learning as a social system offering many ways to alter one component and thus change the whole system. Rather than seeing distraction as a challenge, educators can see it as an opportunity to reflect upon and change the design of their entire instructional approach. Creative and innovative educators can use technology innovations to help reform teaching, similar to the way Guttenberg's press helped bring about scientific revolution and modern authorship.

This schism between how schools have traditionally taught and how students want to learn is bringing education ever closer to a tipping point.

"When you cram any innovation, in any sector, into an existing model, that model basically usurps it, conforms it to the way the model already operates," says Michael Horn, a co-author of Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns. "It doesn't fundamentally change that factory model in a way that's student-centric. It doesn't give each student what [he or she] really need[s]."

It is good to see higher ed looking at the importance of teaching methods. We know how hard it is to change this in K-12 setting. I can't imagine how hard it will be for higher ed to make a 'paradigm shift'.

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Bruce - wow - some really cool ideas in this. I can definitely see how hooking up a 64GB iphone to a keyboard and screen being the way things get done in the future. Lots of good ideas about 'transformation'. Teachers need a roadmap for how to make the shift. More and more articles like this will make it clear to them that they need to change, but they have no idea how to.