21st Learning

Today I was at a Ministry of Education sponsored on 21st Century Learning Environments.

I really liked Jane Gilbert's presentation on knowledge and what that means. It sits very close to mine. The idea that knowledge is not universal seems so obvious but so alien to what happens in schools. It still is all about knowledge acquisition and so little about meaning.

Until we reconsider the meaning of knowledge and its transmission schools appear to be stuck in the constraints of the modernist thought.

There is a lot of talk about IT but little about what that means. The here and the now. But still the drivers are against this.