Monday, February 25, 2008

The Future of Learning in a New Free World

http://www.newhorizons.org/future/dryden.htm

Summary: The author notes that millions of teachers and billions of students continue to work mainly in isolation, yet in today's world of instant communication, collaboration is essential in order to make the most effective changes.

The author gives these three choices/solutions for the problem he presents:

· A world where only two billion rich people share the benefits — and two billion live in poverty?
· Or a new sharing, caring world?
· A new world of cooperative enterprise and mass innovation?

He states his choice as, "the new free world of cooperative enterprise, where all children are the leaders of the new free world. And where we all share the benefits of a new World Wide Learning Web."

I agree with a lot of what he states in his article, especially when he talks about how it's unfair that such a large group of students are being "left out" by high-priced computers and high-priced software.

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