Our Students • Our Worlds
For decades, education has been an easy institution to define. It consisted of acknowledged literacy skills, definable bodies of knowledge, and pedagogies for teaching willing students within information-scarce learning environments. Today, for the first time in decades, we are questioning our notions about teaching and learning as we adapt 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 educators — as the line between teacher and student appears 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:
Harnessing the Perfect Storm
Image Citation:
Darkmatter, “Back to the Future.” Darkmatter’s Photostream. 20 Oct 2005. 31 Aug 2007 .
