{"id":1212,"date":"2012-03-17T16:41:45","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T23:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/?p=1212"},"modified":"2017-12-17T16:45:15","modified_gmt":"2017-12-17T23:45:15","slug":"learning-2-0-the-next-generation-of-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/?p=1212","title":{"rendered":"Learning 2.0: The Next Generation of Education"},"content":{"rendered":"

In January 2012, I posted\u00a0The Politics of Learning 2.0: From Governance to Capacity Building<\/a><\/i>\u00a0and offered thanks and acknowledgement to the Randolph and Dora Haynes Foundation for their financial support of the research leading up to it.<\/p>\n

This report is the last of the pieces planned as part of the project.\u00a0\u00a0However, there are more recent blog posts, and readers are invited to explore them in the blog space and archives.<\/p>\n

The series began with\u00a0Learning 2.0<\/a><\/i><\/b>,\u00a0<\/i>a short essay on how we might reshape school reform to recognize the tremendous changes in information processing and their implications for teaching and learning.<\/p>\n

Learning 2.0\u00a0<\/i>is built around the notion that it is possible for us to replace the batch-processing mode of education that has been in place for a century.\u00a0\u00a0Both our norms about \u201cthe grammar of schooling\u201d and the statutory foundations of public education reinforce age-graded instruction, labeling students as ahead or behind, and the firm belief that it should take exactly nine months to learn Algebra I.\u00a0\u00a0Moreover, students should learn it in eighth grade to get ahead of the\u00a0Japanese<\/span>\u00a0Chinese.<\/p>\n

Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown write about\u00a0A New Culture of Learning<\/a>,\u00a0<\/i>which I compare with John Dewey\u2019s classic\u00a0School and Society\u00a0<\/i>written more than a century ago, and the new culture faces some of the same possibilities of defeat and distortion as Dewey\u2019s did.<\/p>\n

Clayton Christensen, Michael Horn and Curtis Johnson make the case that computer aided, Internet delivered instruction is a\u00a0disruptive technology<\/a>, like the transistor or digital photography.\u00a0\u00a0I believe they are partly right, but only partly.\u00a0\u00a0Technology adoption in education is not like technology adoption in the consumer or commercial marketplace; it\u2019s a political battle with existing and emerging interests.<\/p>\n

Part of the political battle will come over the creation of a new production system for education.\u00a0\u00a0Yochai Benkler, in\u00a0The Wealth of Networks<\/a>,\u00a0<\/i>makes the case that peer production\u2014building knowledge through a wide-spread cooperative network\u2014is an important new mode of knowledge delivery that challenges the existing, capital intensive, media and knowledge production oligarchy.\u00a0\u00a0Society will witness a massive political fight over access and copyright.\u00a0\u00a0And unless educators cede the battle before it\u2019s begun, there will be another fight over whether educators or corporations design learning.<\/p>\n

Teachers and their\u00a0unions are particularly vulnerable<\/a>\u00a0in this battle.\u00a0\u00a0Unions are always vulnerable when a production technology changes, and neither national union seems to realize that changes in teaching and learning pose an elemental challenge to their existence.\u00a0\u00a0These changes also offer unions the greatest opportunity they have had since winning collective bargaining rights.<\/p>\n

In other published pieces I amplify on the elements of\u00a0Learning 2.0.\u00a0<\/i>\u00a0Remix<\/a>\u00a0<\/i>makes the case for combining head and hands learning, and examines the potential of Linked Learning.\u00a0\u00a0In\u00a0Student as Worker<\/a>,\u00a0<\/i>I expand on the idea that students are the real workers in the education system, and that we should build on that reality.<\/p>\n

In\u00a0Amending Our Ideas of Basic Skills<\/a>,\u00a0<\/i>and in a\u00a0longer essay<\/a>, I argue that collaboration and understanding how to engage ambiguous problems should become part of the basic skill set taught in all elementary and secondary schools.<\/p>\n

In\u00a0Re-Bundling Teaching, Testing, and Growing Up<\/a>,\u00a0<\/i>write about the changing work roles for teachers brought about by external testing and the possibilities of recreating the historically important but currently devalued role of teacher as mentor and guide to adulthood.<\/p>\n

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In January 2012, I posted\u00a0The Politics of Learning 2.0: From Governance to Capacity Building\u00a0and offered thanks and acknowledgement to the Randolph and Dora Haynes Foundation for their financial support of the research leading up to it. This report is the last of the pieces planned as part of the project.\u00a0\u00a0However, there are more recent blog […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[185],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1212"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1214,"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions\/1214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}