While you watch the videos and read the texts of this lesson you must record, in text, the key ideas and understanding you gather from the media. Focus your thoughts on the influences on education of a digital society and, in particular, the implications of the changing educational paradigms as discussed by Sir Ken Robinson in the first video. Save it all in one note or document. In the last activity of the lesson we will represent this text visually.
Let's start with the big picture and take a few steps back to examine where we are coming from in education and what may be on the horizon.
Watch this animated talk on Changing Education Paradigms in which Sir Ken Robinson interprets the old paradigm and suggests how this should be changing.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U​]
Video: Changing Education Paradigms (11:41)
Watch this animated talk called The Internet in Society: Empowering or Censoring Citizens? in which Evgeny Morozov presents an alternative take on 'cyber-utopianism', suggesting that the internet plays a largely emancipatory role in global politics. What are the implications of this for education in the school?
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk8x3V-sUgU]
Video: The Internet in Society: Empowering or Censoring Citizens? (10:59)
- Join the discussion group for this lesson called Changing Landscape.
- Discuss your conclusions about these two videos in terms of how the digital landscape in which our learners are growing is offering them opportunities to influence society, while the education landscape is still calling for increasing conformity. Where do we stand as teachers in this apparent mismatch and what can we do to educate our learners in a changing landscape?
