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Education 2015 |
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Education 2015 |
Teacher
Autonomous learners will need to be able to formulate enquiries, select keywords and learn efficient search strategies.
Teacher
Students will need effective time management skills, otherwise they might procrastinate for ever.
Teacher
Students will need to know much more about formulating their own learning agenda.
Teacher
Modelling your own learning is difficult. It might be beyond some of us.
Teacher
Maintaining motivation could be a challenge.
Politician
I don't believe that such a large proportion could not cope. But to ignore any minority, however small, would be irresponsible.
Student
Deciding when to stop can be very difficult when you're using a computer.
Teacher
If you haven't grown up using computers regularly, then you're going to be disadvantaged when you're expected to use them for learning.
Student
Who says cutting and pasting is plagiarism?
Teacher
ILS can make a difference.
Teacher
Collaborative work on computers is easier, but how on earth do we assess it.
Teacher
IT really makes a difference to the achievements of my SEN kids.
Teacher
My difficulty when carrying out an assessment is evaluating the different facets of a multi-media presentation.
Parent
There'll be a game show about death next - where is the difference between fantasy and reality for children?
Parent
Certainly access to a worldwide network should be regulated, to safeguard young innocent minds and to hamper the spread of socially unacceptable viewpoints. The question is who decides what is acceptable?
Parent
I don't want pornography, fascism, sexism and violence on the Net...at the moment the web is self-censoring, but this wonÕt last - there is too much money at stake.
Politician
You can't control information. The breakdown of Eastern European societies shows this. Open access to information is uncomfortable, we might not like it, but how can we stop it?
Teacher
WeÕve been asking all this time for more information, saying things like information is power; now we have it...and we are frightened.
Student
I'd like to go to University. IÕd like to leave home and lead a different sort of life. I'd like to take part in political and cultural activities.
Teacher
I believe thereÕs more to education than transmitting course content.
Teacher
Sophisticated technology might make education a commodity. To be bought and sold.
Teacher
The concerns of the company might be for their shareholders, not for their students. Quality might be at risk.
Senga Whiteman
If the software manages the student, I fear the consequences. It may begin with a diagnostic test, followed by the formulation of a learning programme. The students would be managed by the technology. They would be powerless.
Oleg Liber
They tell me it will be better for me, I won't have transport difficulties if I can study at home. That's not enough! I want to be with other students.
Oleg Liber
Autonomous learning implies a new pattern of relationships not a new form of dependency.
Student
If I've got access to the appropriate resources at my finger tips (i.e. on a screen), I don't waste so
much time going to the library.
Parent
An eleven year old doctor's not coming near me. I want a mature adult who understands my concerns.
Teacher
The fact that an 11 year old can learn everything necessary to become a doctor simply exposes the limitations in medical training.
Teacher
There's more to being a doctor than remembering facts; perhaps the 11 year old could spend the next ten years on social skills.
Parent
What happened to childhood and personal growth?
Anon
Autonomous learning is not the same as independent learning; guidance is essential.
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Parent
You can't get wisdom from a computer.
TV Commercial
Anybody can work at home with IT.
Economist
If everyone was employed there would be no mobility for developing markets.
Politician
Full employment means no more than 1 million people being out of work.
Politician
Being employed means productively using your time.
Part-time student
I really enjoy my voluntary work.
Teacher
I went to an international teacher's conference last week and each cultural group decided that their way was definitely the right way.
Artist
I have a fear that our rich cultural diversity could be replaced by a politically correct but bland common world culture. There is strength in difference.
Politician
Look at the Web, what better example of the dominance of white middle-class, English-speaking technonerds can you think of?
Activist
The curriculum goes multinational, information will be multinational and it will be collected, organised and interpreted by the likes of Murdoch. What space will there be for minorities and dissenting voices?
Teacher
Probably several ÒinsignificantÓ minorities will create their own databank just to keep their own cultural identity...are we speaking about open and flexible distance learning?
Parent
Why don't children play the good old fashioned playground games any more? Whatever happened to marbles and skipping ropes?
Teacher
By the year 2015 laptop computers will be far more powerful than anything we've ever seen. They'll even be available off cornflake packets. So access won't be a problem.
Parent
Five years ago I was struggling to afford a laptop, now I've got three and my daughter's got one as well.
Student
I've got a friend - it's on the Net.
Parent
My kids hang around on street corners all day. I've got to get them out from under my feet.
Parent
My kids are always going on about their friends on the Net.
Teacher
I won't allow anything into my classroom that I don't understand. And children can't be expected to discover everything on their own.
Teacher
Good teachers understand that many multimedia concepts are formed by children in other activities.
Teacher
Children of today live in a multimedia world and our classrooms must reflect that change.
Teacher
School is where you come to learn and work. All multimedia does is encourage children to play around and enjoy themselves.
Student
Mr Brown? We all hate it in his class. He's mad keen on airplanes and we are always doing topics on it.
Student
Miss Williams is magic Ñ she showed us how we can get flip animations into our class stories.
Student
That commercial last night for ice cream was brilliant. They used mashed potato for the closeup work. It didn't fool me. That's what we had to do.
Teacher
I don't want to be a manager of a learning environment. I want to teach. I want my students to feel as inspired by my subject as I do.
Lecturer
We lecturers are more flexible than computer based modules. We can respond to student needs and to changes in circumstances. We can adapt our teaching in ways that computers can't.
Student
I need the reassurance of following a course that someone else has designed. I don't want to plan it all for myself. That's too much responsibility.
Teacher
The question of assessing the originality of student work is irrelevant. You are failing to recognise the essence of the learning process. Learning is about individual fulfillment - if you cheat, you are only cheating yourself. There is no satisfaction in adequately completing an assignment in which you have, in effect, conned the tutor who marks it .
Teacher
I have a problem with authority. I know from talking to a student who is currently working in multi-media that 90% of the content of her assignment is pasted in from other reputable sources- she has added the occasional comments of her own. I have been seduced into believing these are equally authoritative statements. I can't see the joins - its just all to glitsy. Perhaps all original work should appear in a hand written font.
Teacher
There isn't a word of originality in this assignment, it is all pasted in from elsewhere. I can't possibly pass it.
Student
I've read 30 books, looked at over 100 pictures, listened to the works of over 20 composers and synthesised all that to produce a very focussed essay. In the process I've learnt a great deal from all these sources - what is the point of then rewriting it all in my own words? I've learnt as much from the materials that I've rejected as those that I have included.
Teacher
I have been asked to arrange for all exams, within a 5 year timescale, to be conducted on networked multimedia machines. The argument is if you teach students to be brilliant at researching, handling, selecting and presenting information then you can't be serious in setting them a 45 minute written test! This is a nightmare scenario, but the lie detector will solve the problem. If we can validate the authority of course work there is no need to set exams.
Teacher
Perhaps this refers to more junk mail - as usual everyone is an expert on teaching, and they're all trying to sell their information.
Teacher
There are real dangers in allowing learners to construct their own learning programmes. Mediocrity could replace challenge.
Parent
..joining the Global forum from home is a brilliant idea - but as soon as the commercial world wakes up to the idea, the whole issue will revolve around money...we already have home banking & home shopping so presumably, educational courses on a pay-as-you-learn basis, will follow, and then they will be liable to commercial pressure.....
Student
We won't want to use our terminals to access distance learning materials, we have more imagination than that.
Politician
Welcome to equal opportunities!!!
Teacher
Today money is dependent on bums on seats. So what's going to happen in the future?
Teacher
All kids will be brain tagged so monitoring them won't be a problem.
Teacher
We can't prevent delinquency today. So what would happen if we didn't have them on site.
Headmaster
Virtual schools - fantasy. It'll never happen.
Student
I don't want to watch someone reading to me - I want to be able to read the text myself!
Govenor
If our school buys a multimedia encyclopedia are the children going to learn a lot? We bought a complete set of Encyclopedia Britannica a few years ago and it doesn't seem to have made any difference at all.
Teacher
It's how a child interacts with the information that is important.
Govenor
Children creating multimedia? What about quality? Does just giving someone a camcorder turn them into Stephen Spielberg? More likely to turn into Jeremy Beadle!
Teacher
Children who can create their own multimedia demonstrate mastery of the subject matter.
Teacher
Multimedia is a new medium in itself, and is more than the sum of its parts. It thus needs a new set of criteria to assess its quality. How valid are these criteria?
Student
I'm planning my own course, with guidance. It's great!
Teacher
IT gives students immediate access with a range of resources at their fingertips.
Student
I've always been interested in Maths and Music. My course incorporates both.
Parent
My partner's unemployed. We can't afford a phone line. Don't tell me what I can do because of IT. I've got to struggle to keep my family warm and fed.
Teacher
We can put our courses onto the multimedia system so that each student will be able to work through it in a way that suits them. This will cater for students who know different amounts when they start the course, and allow for different learning styles.
Teacher
The computer will be able to recognise what each child already knows, and provide them with material that is just what they need to do next. I can't possibly do this for all the pupils in a class of 30.
Teacher
The multimedia system is really great for getting a group of pupils to work together. They can discuss what they see and what they're going to do next - it's so much better than when they work just from books around the table.
John Scriven
The kids learn so much when they're using that multimedia system, and it's great to think that they're having fun at the same time!
Politician
Multimedia is of course expensive, but we can save money by releasing teachers from preparation and marking and by raising class sizes.
Teacher
Multimedia is a threat to my job - I didn't come into teaching to baby-sit while children play with computers all day, and I have lost control over what the children are doing.
Parent
Multimedia is essential for my children. The more they learn about computers the better because their jobs will depend on them.
No Games Skills - No Jobs
Long ago, in the mid 1990s, there was a mismatch between what is taught in school and the needs of employers. The evidence proved that when playing computer games children develop a range of competences which were undervalued.
Parent
When I was 12 I would never have considered designing a city but my daughter did yesterday.
Teacher
I use adventure games to get students to tease out the real meaning of adventure.
Teacher
Maybe I need to find out more about these game playing skills.
Parent
Employers will want people with active problem solving skills just like my five year old playing Lemmingsª.
Parent
My kids waste hours playing computer games.
Teacher
I often tell my students that children develop important skills by playing computer games.
Storm Over Stay at Home Learners
Young people can access learning materials from home, supported by a two way tutor link. There have been stormy reactions from parents, students and employers who claim this kind of learning is not working.
Teacher
We can begin to separate the idea of a school as the location where we gain wisdom and the role of the school as a location for social control.
Student
As a slow learner, I'd need contact with real people - I want to be able to to touch them. Significant individuals have really helped me to move on in my learning.
Politician
Humans are social beings, with this in mind, we need to be clear about what we gain from learning together and can learning be effective and long lasting without personal and tactile collaboration.
Teacher
There's a difference between knowledge and learning - there is also a range of skills that we need, to enjoy and experience the world around us.. there will be times when we will need to draw on conversational and negotiating skills for instance, from getting an overdraft to talking to members of the opposite sex...
Teacher
You can't expect young learners to study from home, even if they are in two way contact with tutors. They need the buzz of face to face contact, it's a simple as that.
Teacher
Where is the hidden curriculum in all this?
Traditional Curriculum Outdated
Most Universities find that their curriculum is inappropriate for the post-industrial information economy. As the concept of employment has disappeared so too has our concept of being educated. The way we think of ourselves has changed because of new ways of living and making a living.
Teacher
The development of education over the past four centuries has placed primacy of head over body, and of text over all other modalities. Will the plastic multi-dimensional communications technologies of the future reunite mind and body or increase alienation?
Teacher
I'm sure we all use sources of information out of real need, like when we're about to travel. Isn't education about quality of life?
Teacher
Education for work! Education for leisure! or perhaps education just for the sheer fun of doing it?
Philospher
Before long, our current perception of work will be proved laughable - when will be finally realise that full employment is not a viable target? We will be looking at a society that has ready access to multiple learning experiences which will encourage a dilution of learning due to the generalist, user-controlled learning path.
Teachers
Young people know that they need to be flexible learners, they won't want to be hemmed in by time and distance. They won't put up with an outdated curriculum.
Teacher
Maybe an educated person is someone who understands that knowledge is nothing if you donÕt build or choose your own learning process.
We Don't Need Teachers, Say Students
Students are now able to do without teachers to get hold of information, to think about the world and to consider their learning progress. Using the power of computers, students can reflect on models of themselves as learners. This is leading to students working without support of any kind from lecturers.
Student
IT can empower me and support me as I select appropriate resources.
Student
My computer lets me analyse my own strengths and weaknesses in private, without feeling exposed.
Teacher
Computers can be used as a tool to record progress, portray abilities, interests and experience and then transform this profile to offer the student new perceptions.
Teacher
Profiling on computers helps students to consider their attainment and plan their next steps, traditionally a teacher's responsibility.
Student
The computer can present me with a map of my learning opportunities. I can see where I am and where I'm going.
Student
The computer helps me to know that I know something.
Teacher
Computers have the potential to help people learn and to help people learn how to learn.
1,000th Campus Sans Frontier Opens!
The expanding use of electronic communication networks has facilitated the global
exchange of information which in turn has lead to greater flexibility in accessing
educational opportunities internationally.
Teacher
On-line enrolement is only a brief step away.
Politician
New technologies are already providing greater access to education for minority groups.
Teacher
Students already move between Higher Education institutions.
Student
Do we really need universities?
Student
Already I can access information from around the world soon I will be able to access courses as well.
Teacher
It has been said that IT will change every phase of education except for primary.This is because of the importance of the custodial element with young children.