We need to stop arguing over which factory-age solutions we should try

by | Feb 6, 2012 | Leadership and Vision, Our Changing World | 1 comment

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Trace Pickering recently sent me a slide deck that’s definitely worth viewing. Trace is a wonderful systems thinker. His slides do a nice job of describing historical shifts in American society and the concurrent changes that were necessary in American education. As he notes about our current era,

We seem to be stuck … arguing over which factory-age solutions we should try without fully understanding the implications of the context we are in and the new functions we need education to perform.

Trace’s slides are embedded below. He’s kindly made them available with a Creative Commons license. He also made a video in which he talks through the slides. Happy viewing!

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1 Comment

  1. Shelley Owen
    Shelley Owen on February 9, 2012 at 8:42 am

    Thanks for sharing this today Scott. It’s remarkably timely as we are currently opening up the conversation about “21st Century Learning” with our parents and community. I think the video will describe perfectly, and succinctly, what is needed and what we mean by the phrase. “Trace is a wonderful systems thinker.” I agree!

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