Question from Prof. Diana Laurillard’s keynote session #8
South Korea went very quickly, comprehensively and massively into e-learning. Recently they made a u-turn and have opted for more traditional pedagogical approaches. Can you comment?
That's not necessarily the best way to do it. Digital technology is the most significant change to happen to education in thousands of years - overturning the master-student and transmission of knowledge traditions it developed with old technology. We can't learn that quickly how to do it well,especially as the technology keeps changing, as soon as we think we understand it. And when you think that these technologies are never developed with education in mind - we ride on the back of technology innovation for commerce, leisure, retail, finance... education has to adapt and combine all these to make the technology work for us. That takes time. You can't do the innovation well if you do it quickly, comprehensively, and massively. Also, in S Korea, the innovation was not guided or created by teachers. It has to be if it is to be effective.
That's not necessarily the best way to do it. Digital technology is the most significant change to happen to education in thousands of years - overturning the master-student and transmission of knowledge traditions it developed with old technology.
ReplyDeleteWe can't learn that quickly how to do it well,especially as the technology keeps changing, as soon as we think we understand it. And when you think that these technologies are never developed with education in mind - we ride on the back of technology innovation for commerce, leisure, retail, finance... education has to adapt and combine all these to make the technology work for us. That takes time. You can't do the innovation well if you do it quickly, comprehensively, and massively.
Also, in S Korea, the innovation was not guided or created by teachers. It has to be if it is to be effective.