zaterdag 26 april 2008

Wired: School's Out

School's Out

The hyperlearning revolution will replace public education

Wired 1.01: School's Out

The conventional "technology" of the classroom is a thousand-year-old invention initially adopted to discipline an esoteric cadre of acetic monks. The institution of contemporary, "public" education is a 19th- century innovation designed as a worker-factory for an industrial economy. Both have as much utility in today's modern economy of advanced information technology as the Conestoga wagon or the blacksmith shop.

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