Monday, April 17, 2006

Flat Classrooms

David Warlick has started a new series of posts and a wiki on Flat Classroom Learning Engines. It is incredibly interesting stuff and a way to address some of the ideas and issues brought up in Flat World. I am intrigued by his ideas but always come back to how do we make this change? How do we take our classrooms from the traditional methods and move them towards the future. I believe that we need to setup a trial site of some kind to do this - a classroom or an entire school (yes I KNOW I'm dreaming here). If we don't show that this method can improve performance on high stake testing I do not think it will gain a following until it is too late!


Some of the interesting quotes from these posts:


"It's more important how we learn than what we learn."

"The teacher could rely on gravity to support the flow of curriculum down to the learners. But as much as we might like to pretend, we (teachers) are no longer on top of the hill. The hill is practically gone."

2 comments:

EricHarman said...

I saw Will Richardson's presentation this past January at Ohio's eTech conference. Since then, I've read his and David Warlick's books to learn more. I've also partnered with several teachers as we experiment with blogs, wikis, etc. I'm sold on the process. I'm unsure of the procedure.

EricHarman said...

I saw Will Richardson's presentation this past January at Ohio's eTech conference. Since then, I've read his and David Warlick's books to learn more. I've also partnered with several teachers as we experiment with blogs, wikis, etc. I'm sold on the process. I'm unsure of the procedure.