Transparency and Education
Will Richardson,
Weblogg-ed,
Feb 17, 2005
So I'm in Vancouver after having spent a day flying across the country. I've been coding, taking photos, and generally thinking about power, community and progress. Maybe people will see this year as the beginning of a new (and smarter) approach to learning, the recognition that learning cannot be programmed for a group of individuals as though they were machines. "The hard, familiar reality is that learning is both idiosyncratic (you and I do not learn everything is quite the same way and pace) and messy. Most serious learning is not nicely sequential." But the thing is, this is not a new insight. So why do we keep getting pulled back from anything like real learner centered learning? From Will Richardson: "You have to read some Marx," my friend said. "Don't you know that those in power will let the masses convince themselves that are in control until they become a bit too powerful, at which point they'll step in and shut it down?" It doesn't take a course in dialectical materialism to see it being shut down. Today's theme? Take back the web.
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