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 You Say You Want a Revolution “You tell me it's the institution Well you know You better free your mind instead” Today, it is clear that the revolution in learning is about the freeflow and interplay of ideas. This has been accentuated by network technologies and expedited by the neural connections these technologies facilitate worldwide. Will Richardson of Weblogg-ed makes available an informative PowerPoint called New Internet Literacies in the Classroom. In it, he characterizes this moment in time as the “Age of Authorship,” the “Age of Participation,” “the Age of Collaboration,” and the “Age of Engagement.” He borrows these phrases respectively from such thought revolutionaries as Jonathan Schwartz (Sun), Irving Wladawsky Berger (IBM), and Mary Meeker (Morgan Stanley). The concensus is that digital tools are expanding our opportunities and abilities to be productive. Further fodder for this canon can be gained from the following two mediacasts, which require Real Player and take about an hour each: Thomas Friedman: The World is Flat (Requires IE browser) Daniel Pink: And The English Majors Shall Inherit the Earth Clearly, the dogs of revolution are barking...and the technology is enabling them to run in a pack. The echo multiplies. Our task as educators is to figure out what this unprecedented acceleration of change means for the students we teach. Then we must apply that knowledge to how we build capacity in our students (and ourselves) to learn for a lifetime.  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. |
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