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Friday 1st June 2007 11:44 am

Schools are a Last Vestige of an Industrial Age

What will schools be like when they act like information age organizations?

For the last twenty years, most of the applications of interactive media to education have been representative of the first stage of adopting a new technology, analogous to computing being used only for accounting. Interactive textbooks, on-line projects for kids to work on, virtual environments in which kids can simulate towns and communities, and games with embedded learning goals are all very important innovations that will help improve the creation and delivery of content and new knowledge. They are as critical to success in learning as computing is now essential to financial analysis in companies. However, they represent only the first stage of adoption; the second stage, resulting in the organizational transformation, is yet to emerge.

What will schools be like when they act like information age organizations?  To read more on this topic visit our ThinkingSpaces website.

Category: Civic-Engagement, Credibility, Ecology-of-Games, Identity, Race-Ethnicity, Unexpected

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Kevin Denney
 Institute of Design
http://id.iit.edu
Posted on June 1 2007 6:14 PM

In a recent Globe and Mail article, William Gibson wrote about the changing nature of cities like New York and Toronto and our interpretation of what life in them used to be like.  He says; “There was an element of dČj‡ vu for me about this “regooding” (my friend’s term) of the gone world. I felt as though I knew where it was going. I felt as though I’d seen it before, and knew where it led, though I wasn’t quite aware why.” I wonder what we have to let go of in order for new institutions to emerge and what will we be “regooding” about our current institutions in the future? 

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