Comments on: One View – 2020 http://tsearl.edublogs.org Reflections on Learning 70:20:10 Tue, 08 Dec 2009 02:04:28 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Tony Searl http://tsearl.edublogs.org/one-view-2020/comment-page-1/#comment-134 Tony Searl Sun, 21 Dec 2008 20:41:53 +0000 http://tsearl.edublogs.org/?page_id=96#comment-134 Bill, thanks for joining the conversation. Agreed, much of this will happen well before 2020. I chose that date back in August when I was just diving into this web2.0 world. 6 short months later I can see the pace of reform and development is way faster. Real innovators such as yourself will see to that. The eclectic learning on offer by education service providers will see deep QTL as a given on all levels. Students will carefully invest their government funding and choose very unique paths that suit their individual learning styles, their passions and goals for their futures. The student will be the administration. The pyramid of control in current DETs will cease to be relevant. I'm also predicting 2020 as to when these practices are global and common in what are now known as departments of education which will cease to exist by then, or be very different places at the very least. Those systems and individuals that innovate will be allowed to because they are not restricted, filtered, mandated, controlled or cloistered. Current misguided policy that wants to protect and cocoon for either control, privacy, fear of semantic web or litigious reasons will change, but too slowly as others close the achievemnet gap and others such as yourself, race ahead and set the deep learning pace. Well done Bill, I will be following your posts more closely now. Bill, thanks for joining the conversation.

Agreed, much of this will happen well before 2020. I chose that date back in August when I was just diving into this web2.0 world.

6 short months later I can see the pace of reform and development is way faster. Real innovators such as yourself will see to that.

The eclectic learning on offer by education service providers will see deep QTL as a given on all levels.

Students will carefully invest their government funding and choose very unique paths that suit their individual learning styles, their passions and goals for their futures.

The student will be the administration. The pyramid of control in current DETs will cease to be relevant.

I’m also predicting 2020 as to when these practices are global and common in what are now known as departments of education which will cease to exist by then, or be very different places at the very least.

Those systems and individuals that innovate will be allowed to because they are not restricted, filtered, mandated, controlled or cloistered.

Current misguided policy that wants to protect and cocoon for either control, privacy, fear of semantic web or litigious reasons will change, but too slowly as others close the achievemnet gap and others such as yourself, race ahead and set the deep learning pace.

Well done Bill, I will be following your posts more closely now.

]]> By: Bill Farren http://tsearl.edublogs.org/one-view-2020/comment-page-1/#comment-133 Bill Farren Sun, 21 Dec 2008 13:57:17 +0000 http://tsearl.edublogs.org/?page_id=96#comment-133 Thanks for this post. Lots of interesting ideas here. I'm betting that the forecasts you make here will come true sooner than later. (I'll be attempting to set up a virtual class for next year and will no longer be working in a school. Hopefully, I can get enough students to sign up for my course and make it work.) The idea of students being able to take their money where they want is an important one. I think we need to be working toward legislation that allows students to use "their educational $$" from the gov. as they please (for education, of course). The definition of "education" will probably need to change, however. Once students have choice in how they spend their ed$$, then I think it will open up all kinds of new offerings from a more eclectic group of ed providers. Interesting idea about less developed ed systems catching up with the more developed. It reminds me of poorer countries skipping the infrastructural costs of land line phone systems and going right to cellular. I agree this could help level the field considerably. Thanks for this post. Lots of interesting ideas here. I’m betting that the forecasts you make here will come true sooner than later. (I’ll be attempting to set up a virtual class for next year and will no longer be working in a school. Hopefully, I can get enough students to sign up for my course and make it work.)
The idea of students being able to take their money where they want is an important one. I think we need to be working toward legislation that allows students to use “their educational $$” from the gov. as they please (for education, of course). The definition of “education” will probably need to change, however. Once students have choice in how they spend their ed$$, then I think it will open up all kinds of new offerings from a more eclectic group of ed providers.
Interesting idea about less developed ed systems catching up with the more developed. It reminds me of poorer countries skipping the infrastructural costs of land line phone systems and going right to cellular. I agree this could help level the field considerably.

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