Schools And Tech

Schools_and_Tech_#26_Dr._Collins_Rethinking_Education_in_the_Age_of_Technology.mp3 Listen on Posterous Dr. Allan Collins, Professor Emeritus of learning sciences at Northwestern and author of Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology: The Digital Revolution and Schooling in America http://allancollins.northwestern.edu/index.html  When we acknowledge that 3-5% of current K-12 students are being home-schooled (and that that number may grow to 15-18% by 2020), that distance and adult education programs are thriving, that growing bodies of knowledge are now available through video and online media, that learning centers like those offered by Kaplan are burgeoning forth and making a mint, we really must accept that learning is changing and that schooling will ultimately evolve as well.  What historically has been the role of education? How is that role changing? What are the gains and losses inherent in moving toward a more technological mode of teaching and learning? What factors accou