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Changing EducationThomas Frey Outlines Some Driving Forces That Will Change Education
Thomas Frey, founder of the DaVinci Institute in Colorado, outlines the areas of change for schools and education in the future.
TrendsFrey has selected key trends that will determine the new system of education coming in less than ten years. These trends will move together to form change. The Future of Education has outlined his vision in general terms. Now, Frey gets more specific. Teaching vs. LearningWhile education in the past has been a matter of transferring information from one person to another, this is highly inefficient. Frey calls this concept as the "sage on stage". Lecturing has been used to education the masses for hundreds of years but this is going to change. Frey takes the position that lecturing in today's society is the same roadblock today as the Roman numerals system was for the Romans. In the future, teachers will not have to know the content area to "teach." They will defer to someone across the country or on the other side of the world. Emphasis will shift from teaching to learning. "Experts will create "courseware" and the students will learn anytime or anywhere at a pace that is comfortable for them, learning about topics that they are interested in." Thomas Frey. This could reduce boredom and lower the drop out rate. Exponential Growth of Information500 years ago people knew little about the world around them. Chances were good that they were born and died in the same house, traveled little, and had little awareness of the rest of the world. Knowledge was shared on an "as needed" basis by the more educated members of society, often the church or the ruling family. Today, we are overwhelmed with so much information coming at us with such speed and volume that we are suffering from overload. Specialty areas have been created in education, medicine and business to help us cope with the overload. Frey sees the continued control of information by a few. There is still the notion that only doctors know about medicine and only teachers know how to prepare for the future. Overwhelming StatisticsFrey points out that information in the past was in text form in books. We read it, we memorized it, we listened to a lecture on it, we took a test on it and moved on to another topic or another book. Today, our society no longer learns auditorily. We are now visual and spatial learners. Information comes in a variety of dimensions.
Information is now not only coming at us in massive volume but is text-based, graphical, musical, audio and visual. Frey will point out in the next installment how information will be delivered in the near future. Source: Thomas Frey, DaVinci Institute, with permission. Related articles: The Future of Education, Education Roadblocks and Gaps, Future Look of Education, Confidence Based Learning, Paradigm Shift in Learning, Education and Society Are Changing, Chinese: New Super Language Read previous articles on Educational Issues. Copyright article 2007 Barbara Pytel. All Rights Reserved.
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