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Topics of Discussion Please add, edit, comment freely. We will use this input to help guide the discussion. Goals and role of education? - Is there a difference between learning and education - How is this changing as the economy is changing? - What are we training people for? How is it different than what we've done in the past. - Daniel Pink's "A Whole New Mind" Learning how to learn - Has the web changed the way people learn, should we expect it to? - Is web literacy a prerequisite to be a successful student (today? in five years?) How do we measure success? - Alternatives to standardized testing - Who controls accreditation? - Should content + interaction + assessment be disaggregated? Access - Do we need OLPC for US? - Should we subsidize connectivity? Sources of Motivation - Intrinsic - Fun (learn through games) - Explicit rewards (pay for grades) Role of Schools and Teachers - The challenge of a high rate of change for teachers - Barriers to integrating technology in the classroom - Students more "web literate" than many teachers? - What about success of school-based models (e.g. KIPP)? And is a more costly approach scale-able? Is it for everyone? Content generation - Open sourcing - Peer production - Collaboration around content - Should we subsidize content capture? (Content as Infrastructure) Business models - Free / not-for-profit - Direct to student - Via existing institutions - New distribution channels / platforms? (eg. Valve for educational software) Promising technologies and how to deploy them - Adaptive learning - Casual games - Immersive games / virtual worlds - Simulations - Authoring environments (and new means of expression) Is Facebook a credible platform for learning? - Does it teach web literacy skills? - Can it teach other skills and/or knowledge? - Can it serve as a foundation for other learning experiences (virtual worlds, gaming) - How do we tackle moderation and privacy in the education context Models of learning - Role of repetition - Memorization versus lookup - Construction/manipulation - Critical reasoning - Exploration and Experimentation "Open Education" Movement - Cape Town Declaration (http://www.capetowndeclaration.org/) - Successes and Failures of 'open source' curriculum in K-12 and Higher Ed - Social Networking Models for teachers, students, and parents - State of K-12 Knowledge Management Systems - OER as Reuse vs. OER as Transparency
Innovative funding opportunities for edu ventures - A YCombinator-esque fund for edu startups - Using NCLB funding for innovation rather than to maintain status quo - Opportunity for start-ups to leverage flexible education spending accounts for retraining (http://www.barackobama.com/issues/economy/) Scaling education initiatives into the developing world - Microfinance for education - Lessons learned from things like Sugata Mitra's "Hole in the Wall" experiments (http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/sugata_mitra_shows_how_kids_teach_themselves.html) Human Capital in U.S. Education - How do we recruit and sustain talent - How do we deal with the current realities - Mike Petrilli's thesis: we need to create extraordinary schools with ordinary teachers Democratizing Education
- How can affordable higher education function as a stimulus package for the global economy? - How have eLearning and educational technology changed traditional concepts of education? Where are the biggest opportunities?
- What are the advantages of peer-to-peer learning? How does this pedagogical model impact retention rates? |