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Below is the key concept here. The quicker education administrators and teachers realize this the better off we'll be. >>"With modern technology, if all there
by aik 15y ago
Below is the key concept here. The quicker education administrators and teachers realize this the better off we'll be.
>>"With modern technology, if all there is is lectures, we don't need faculty to do it," Redish says. "Get 'em to do it once, put it on the Web, and fire the faculty."
>>Some faculty are threatened by this, but Mazur says they don't have to be. Instead, they need to realize that their role has changed.
>>"It used to be just be the 'sage on the stage,' the source of knowledge and information," he says. "We now know that it's not good enough to have a source of information."
>>Mazur sees himself now as the "guide on the side" – a kind of coach, working to help students understand all the knowledge and information that they have at their fingertips. Mazur says this new role is a more important one.
- gruseom 15y agoI'd say this is the key concept: "Students have to be active in developing their knowledge," he says. "They can't passively assimilate it." Lectures don't work because they're passive.
- aik 15y agoThat's definitely a related key point, and also my main issue with essentially all of my own education. Although we have the perception of being in control of our own education (ie. we can choose some courses in high school, can choose our university and degree), the fact that nearly every time we enter a classroom, the "passive" hat comes on -- from that moment the teacher is in absolute control and the student simply has to sit back and follow directions. Just recently I attended a weekend Launch48 event. In terms of "teaching styles", the Launch48 teaching style is nearly the complete opposite of the traditional classroom -- intensely engaging (ie. active) instead of passive.