Online Learning Update

August 18, 2012

Unabridged Interview: “Extreme Learning, Matrix-Style” in Big Think

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:01 am

by Curt Bonk, TravelinEdMan

Among the chief goals of education is to help the human species deal with unique problems, issues, or situations as they arise. When we can have the equivalent of the Library of Alexandria in our pockets on an inexpensive flash drive, we must begin to question exactly what should be taught and ultimately what knowledge is. As the forms of such knowledge-based technology multiply and reduce in price, a new dialogue needs to open up about the benefits and intensions of education. The purpose of education has swiftly pivoted from knowing what something is to knowing how to find out about that thing. The basic tools of knowledge discovery are now Wikipedia and other wiki-like tools, YouTube, Facebook.

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