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Objectives for Educational Technology:

• Take an historical perspective of schooling, learning and technology.
• Analyze a less institutionalized and more personalized education.
• Learn about new digital media.
• Provoke participants in the education reform discussion.
• Open up lively discussions about rethinking education in the information age.

Introduction

Lesson 1: How education is changing

Lesson 1 contemplates how education is changing. People around the world are taking their education out of school into homes, libraries, Internet cafés, and workplaces, where they can decide what they want to learn, and how they want to learn. These stories challenge our traditional model of education as learning in classrooms.
These new learning niches use technologies to enable people of all ages to pursue learning on their own terms.

Lesson 2: The technology enthusiasts’ Argument

Lesson 2 and 3 consider the debate between technology enthusiasts and technology skeptics. In the enthusiast’s view, computer-based environments promise a revolution in schooling. Technology enthusiasts envisions schools where students are working on realistic tasks and adults play a supportive role to guide them to new activities and help them when they encounter problems. In the other hand, Schooling itself is conservative. Educators value the idea that everyone should acquire basic skills and deep disciplinary knowledge. There are many barriers to computer use in school, such as the problems it raises for classroom management and the authority of the teacher.
New technologies support an entirely new approach to learning. What will it take for our society to change its concept of what it means to be educated?

Lesson 3: The technology Skeptics’ Argument

Lesson 2 and 3 consider the debate between technology enthusiasts and technology skeptics. In the enthusiast’s view, computer-based environments promise a revolution in schooling. Technology enthusiasts envisions schools where students are working on realistic tasks and adults play a supportive role to guide them to new activities and help them when they encounter problems. In the other hand, Schooling itself is conservative. Educators value the idea that everyone should acquire basic skills and deep disciplinary knowledge. There are many barriers to computer use in school, such as the problems it raises for classroom management and the authority of the teacher.

Lesson 4: The development of American Schooling

Lesson 4 presents the Knowledge revolution, which is bringing on a transformation in education towards life-long learning. The changes in technologies are producing increasing tensions for schools. The schools have become more and more out of sync with the rapidly evolving technological society around them today.

Something about education will have to change.

Lesson 5: The seeds of a new system of Education

Lesson 5 discusses the seeds of the new education system that we see forming around us. Schools will not disappear anytime soon. Schools were prevalent in the era of apprenticeship, and they will be prevalent in whatever system of education that comes into being. But as the seeds of a new system begin to emerge, education will occur in many different, more adaptive, venues and schools will have a narrower role in learning.

Lesson 6: The three eras of Education

Lesson 6 describes critical differences among the three areas of education. We are now entering the lifelong learning era of education, having experienced the apprenticeship and schooling eras. Changes between areas: who was responsible of children’s education, what was the purpose and the content of their education, how they were to be taught and assessed, what do we expect them to learn, location on where learning occur, relationship between teachers and learners.  These three eras differ in many aspects but in some ways the lifelong-learning era reflects elements of the earlier apprenticeship era.

Lesson 7: What must be lost and what must be gained

Lesson 7 considers what may be lost and what must be gained as we face a new future of education. The revolution in education will alter not just the lives of students, but the entirety of modern society. As with any revolution, there are will be both gains and losses. Pessimists see people becoming subservient to their technologies and being left behind as technology comes to dominate our lives. Optimists see a golden age of learning opening before us, where people will be able to find resources to pursue any education they may want. We don’t envision a future that is either bleak or idyllic, but where elements of both are present.

Lesson 8: How schools can cope with the new technologies

Lesson 8 describes how schools can best capitalize on the opportunities that technology affords. Education is flux and where it ends up depends on the decisions society makes. So this is a time of opportunity to determine the future direction of education in ways that we have not faced in 200 years. To be effective in this changing environment requires that the builders of the new education system understand the imperatives of the technologies driving the changes in education.

Lesson 9: What does it all mean?

Lesson 9 describes what the educational revolution means more generally for society. This is the time for technological visionaries to act.Now we face a swirl of new pieces of a potential system – virtual charters, learning centers, video games, home schooling and so on.We need strong leadership from innovative educators to make sure that the new system embodies our society’s critical goals for education.

Lesson 10: Rethinking Education in a technological world

Finally, in Lesson 10, we discuss the different aspects of education that require rethinking as we move from an education system centered on schooling to a system where people engage in learning throughout their lives.  Our new leaders will need to understand that learning that not starts with kindergarten and ends with a high school or college diploma- we need to design a coherent life- long learning system.

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