{"id":2096,"date":"2010-03-03T15:55:51","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T20:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=2096"},"modified":"2010-03-03T16:00:19","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T21:00:19","slug":"who-needs-a-prof-george-siemens-and-stephanie-findlay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/03\/03\/who-needs-a-prof-george-siemens-and-stephanie-findlay\/","title":{"rendered":"Who needs a prof? — George Siemens (and Stephanie Findlay)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who needs a prof?<\/a> –<\/strong>– George Siemens<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve talked in the past about trailing ideologies<\/em> \u2013 namely that we design systems to serve an era, but when the era changes, the systems often don\u2019t. Education is a great example. In higher education and corporate training, we labour under many assumptions and ideologies that have been negated by the web, social media, and mobile technologies. Courses, classrooms, and teacher-centric learning can (should) be rethought to capitalize on what technology enables and renders obsolete from the previous model.<\/p>\n

Who needs a prof?<\/a>:<\/p>\n

So what role is left for the teacher? To be effective, Wieman says, they must be \u201ccognitive coaches\u201d rather than conduits of information. Rankin believes that the change in pedagogy will happen soon. \u201cIt\u2019s comparable to the introduction of a light switch,\u201d he adds. \u201cIt\u2019s just going to take a while for people to figure out what this looks like and how it works.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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From DSC:
\nAlso from the<\/span> “Who needs a prof?” article<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Similarly, William Rankin, an associate professor of English at Abilene Christian University, has been a primary mover behind equipping students at the Texas university with iPod Touches and iPhones. The program began in 2008, and now nearly half the student body have the devices. Rankin says teachers, too, are better off for it. The faculty uses the devices to overcome time delays between tests and feedback, get immediate class input, and participate in ongoing online discussions via blogs. \u201cThe medieval apprentice model in which people learned in these very personalized ways is exactly the type of learning we can see in this initiative,\u201d says Rankin. \u201cI do think that in the next two or three years you will see a groundswell of these sorts of initiatives.\u201d<\/p>\n

From DSC:
\n<\/strong>I post this here to show my support of the need for change and to sew seeds for change<\/strong>. In order for us to meet this next generation where they are at, we can’t hold on to the status quo. We need to cultivate change now <\/em><\/strong>in order to be ready for the K-12ers coming our way.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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