Sunday, September 16, 2007
School 2.0
The concept of School 2.0 is a great one. The posters really give life to the concept. I think there is no question this is the direction that education needs to go. Actually all organizations could benefit from this type of a concept. I think that it is going to take quite some time before the educational system can pull this together. I'm not a teacher, but I have served on the school board of our local school, which is K-12 for one community. For it to be a success within a community there would need to be a committee made up of all stakeholders: educators, parents, taxpayers, IT people, administrators, town officials. A well planned presentation could be made to explain all aspects of School 2.0. including what the steps of a long range plan would look like. I think the biggest hurdle, aside from money, is the technology hurdle. This hurdle needs to be encountered, understood and conquered before progress can be made. In the past, taxpayers were concerned about the costs of brick and mortar but this concept would center more around the costs of technology.
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I think you're right. We need to be having these conversations in our community. How many businesses do you think would be on board with this concept? If they knew schools were moving from a content based system to a system that teaches students to learn.
From a technology point-of-view I think we're talking very little beyond an Internet connection to the outside world and computers that allow us to use that connection. 99% of schools in the U.S. are now connected to the Internet, so the connections there. The tools like blogs, wikis, podcasts, Google docs, OpenOffice2, gliffy, etc are free. No longer do schools need to pay for the software...the new Web 2.0 movement has made most of these tools free for us to use. So the cost of actual learning and using computers is diminishing...but the cost of training teachers is skyrocketing as we try and bring teachers on board with these free amazing tools.
What does a School Board want to see? Let's pretend for just one second there were no test scores. There was no test to rank your school? What would a school board use to know if their schools where teaching the students? How do you measure the difference between content memorized and skills learned? How do we start this conversation in our communities?
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