Donnerstag, 5. November 2009

quality and accessibility - guidelines of future education

Every idea needs a movement but moreover every movement is in the need of a well prepared philosophy behind it.In my opinion this philosophy has to be simple. simple to understand, simple to use and simple to communicate.

Of course education should be free but this doesn´t mean that students should not be charged for it. I do not take a position in this discussion at this point, I just want to point out that this is not the question when we talk about free education.
Free education means free of any repression. There shouldn`t be ideology in it, no political, economical or social need which influence the choice, the direction or the content of education. Before we are able to complain anything or moreover create a movement we have to redefine education. We have to rethink the functionality and concept of education and its deeper sense.
Furthermore we have to detach ourself from the out-dated concept of “ first some one is going to show you how to do it and than you do it until you are to old to do it” . We have to become aware of the speed of changes in our times. At this point I want you to see the following video just to understand what I mean by speed of changes in our times.




We are living in a different time and education and labor is different too.
If I start thinking about education and labor, about the technology and speed of changes it becomes obvious to me that education has to change. We don´t have the time, the money, the facilities or other resources to keep on doing what we doing. Actually our education and labor policy is the reason why progress, innovation and as a result wealth for the people is shrinking and not growing. So what are we talking about. If I imagine that I would be able to follow my interest and co-working with other people it would make such a different. And if I imagine this would be possible to everyone ... I stop writing at this point to leave the discussion open. Just adding this second video to think about it!









I hope to read some comments...

2 Kommentare:

  1. The first video is brilliant. I knew that developments are accelerating but it is something else to actually see the facts.
    It reminds me on the law of accelerating returns of Raymond Kurzweil.
    http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Kurzweil

    The second video is not working for me.

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  2. http://www.edutopia.org/multiple-intelligences-howard-gardner-video direct link

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