Education in Our Networked Future
As we enter the Connected Age, our education systems are increasingly falling short. We have carefully crafted and refined the education system, schools, vocational colleges and secular universities, but they are edifices of different age.
There are three reasons why I say so.
First, we have moved from time of information scarcity to information abundance. Today’s challenge is not to access information, but to check its credential and to be able to use it in context. But our prescriptive education is mostly about ‘knowing’ things rather than ‘discovery’. The school system is designed to discourage inventiveness and questioning. The students are still required to write memorized answers rather than Googling the facts and building independent or collaborative coursework.
Moreover, the education system today is built as Value Chain systems. The focus is on the Process, and the whole ideis to add value to student who turns up at the beginning …
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A GED or General Education Diploma is often also called a General Education Improvement plan. Young kids had been taught the worth of the Constitution, the book was referred to as “Catechism on the Constitution.” Early Americans knew that they had a unique and invaluable invention of political science and they had been determined to market it on all levels of education.