Innovate - Freedom and Empowerment: An Essay on the Next Step for Education and Technology

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"The primary obstacle to growth is our unwillingness to experiment 
outside the traditional confines of schools. We persist in trying to fit 
new technology into the centuries-old molds for learning that are based 
on the primacy of location—campus and classroom. Yet my continued 
optimism for change is based on the belief that we, as educators, will 
follow our instincts and learn to use instructional technology in the 
most efficient and effective ways. And if it means abandoning 
traditional practices, then so be it. For example, a critical outcome of 
computers and the Internet is the removal of time and space barriers to 
learning. We are beginning to realize that location is an arbitrary 
barrier and that education can be far more dynamic when liberated from 
the walls and gates of schools and allowed to flourish in exciting 
real-world environments.

The catalyst for change is the human will. It simply won't be denied. 
The confluence of technology and our natural tendency toward freedom and 
empowerment will press against and eventually flow around and over the 
physical boundaries of our schools. Freed from location, what forms will 
Internet-based education take? How will our roles change? No one can 
know for sure, but we can guess. Here is my projection."





 
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