Chad Outten's Blog – July 2007 Archive (2)

The 'mass production line' is a great analogy to describe the traditional school system. Students as the raw material and educators as the cogs in the machine working for a bureaucracy. For too long, many schools and universities have operated like this: farms and factories that produce clones of a pre-determined specification, fit for society.



It is refreshing to consider an educational system that is not bound by four walls. Learning can happen by anyone about anything, anywhere and… Continue

Traditionally, education has been an entity, a system, a learning process that students undergo, or all or a combination of these things. Albert Einstein was once quoted as saying:



"Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school".



In modern terms, education today is about learning as a life-long experience, not simply a process that students endure for a period of their lives.



Future learning requires deconstructing traditional views… Continue