What is the difference between credentialing and learning? Labaree's Book
What is the role of schooling? Is that likely to change in a Web 2.0 world?
Is the system becoming flat? Friedman's Book - If you are always moving (lateral vs. up the ladder), who is your community, what community are you being enculturated into. What is you meaningful activity?
Utopian (and Dystopian) visions. Don't start drinking the Kool-Aid. To what degree are these systems being manipulated by corporate entities (e.g. bloggers being paid for product placement, employees posting reviews of their products on amazon)? Do you really imagine this is Adam Smith's dream of a perfect market?
In a world where copies are free to make the only things of value are those that are not copies. What does this mean for education if we are able to capture every lecture / handout / worksheet / reading assignment? It seems to me in this case the technology is actually used to drive up the value of the face-to-face.
What is knowledge? What happens to some of our assumptions about learning and learning with technology if you think of learning as the acquisition of cultural practices, not the acquisition of knowledge? How does that impact questions about the role of the university, schooling, or teaching?
Are we willing to take the good with the bad if we start thinking about schooling in terms of business? What does it mean for a "product" to fail? What does it mean to close an underperforming "factory"? Are students widgets? Are teachers manufacturing students out of raw materials? If so, is there craftsmanship? Is there professionalism? If so, what does it contribute to the business model?
What is the role of schooling? Is that likely to change in a Web 2.0 world?
Is the system becoming flat? Friedman's Book - If you are always moving (lateral vs. up the ladder), who is your community, what community are you being enculturated into. What is you meaningful activity?
Utopian (and Dystopian) visions. Don't start drinking the Kool-Aid. To what degree are these systems being manipulated by corporate entities (e.g. bloggers being paid for product placement, employees posting reviews of their products on amazon)? Do you really imagine this is Adam Smith's dream of a perfect market?
In a world where copies are free to make the only things of value are those that are not copies. What does this mean for education if we are able to capture every lecture / handout / worksheet / reading assignment? It seems to me in this case the technology is actually used to drive up the value of the face-to-face.
What is knowledge? What happens to some of our assumptions about learning and learning with technology if you think of learning as the acquisition of cultural practices, not the acquisition of knowledge? How does that impact questions about the role of the university, schooling, or teaching?
Are we willing to take the good with the bad if we start thinking about schooling in terms of business? What does it mean for a "product" to fail? What does it mean to close an underperforming "factory"? Are students widgets? Are teachers manufacturing students out of raw materials? If so, is there craftsmanship? Is there professionalism? If so, what does it contribute to the business model?
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