Our Students • Our Worlds
For decades, education has been an easy institution to define. It consisted of a set of acknowledged literacy skills, a definable body of knowledge, and the pedagogies for teaching those skills to willing students within information-scarce learning environments. Today, for the first time in decades, we are questioning our notions about teaching and learning, adapting to a world that is changing faster than our ability to react. We are struggling to rethink what it is to be educated, to reinvent where it happens, and redefine our roles, as the boarder between teacher and student starts to blur.
This presentation, by 30+ year educator, author, and technologist, David Warlick, will explore some of these changes and challenges and arrange them as a set of converging conditions that might actually hold the clues for redefining and retooling 21st century education.
This is one of my premium keynote addresses, geared principally for education leaders, but quite appropriate for all stakeholders. This presentation can also be expanded out into half- and full-day presentations, covering issues of learner characteristics and the new information landscape.
Alternative Titles:
A Perfect Storm for Change
Image Citation:
Darkmatter, “Back to the Future.” Darkmatter’s Photostream. 20 Oct 2005. 31 Aug 2007 .
