[Air-l] Technology Transforming Education

[Michael Baron]

I think the core teaching skills remain the same. It is only the delivery
methods that evolve over the time. I see evolution of the classrooms as
normal. The world is changing and the education industry is chaging with it.

On 5/23/07, Mary-Helen Ward <mhward at usyd.edu.au> wrote:
>
> I'm not clear who 'we' are  (people on this list? Academics?) or why we
> would limit this engagement to the US. Shifts in the technologies of
> learning are happening worldwide.
>
> Teaching is always being redesigned - the classrooms my children sat in
> in the 70s and 80s bore little resemblance to the classrooms I sat in
> the 1950s. The classrooms my grandchildren sit in today are very
> different again
>
> M-H in Australia.
>
>
>
> Steve Jones wrote:
>
> ><nostalgia>That takes me back to my UIUC days, and PLATO...Programmed
> >Logic for Automated Teaching Operations.</nostalgia>
> >
> >(That probably gives away my age as much as admitting I have a
> >"record collection.")
> >
> >These are the kinds of discussions in which I wish we could engage
> >many U.S. faculty and administrators. One of the things I'm seeing on
> >a lot of campuses the last couple of years is excitement among
> >administrators about "blended" learning because it promises to free
> >up classroom space, which ties into two important administrative
> >matters, namely an interest in increasing enrollment as a means of
> >increasing revenue, and an interest in keeping a lid on construction
> >costs (or, in some cases, the cost of leased space). I agree that
> >those are important matters, but I disagree that they are sufficient
> >reasons to "re-design" teaching (though maybe in really dire
> >circumstances, along the lines, say, of what happened in New Orleans
> >and along the Gulf Coast due to Hurricane Katrina, it would be
> >justifiable as a temporary solution to buildings that must be
> >rehabbed and are unusable in the meantime).
> >
> >
>
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