death of education .. dawn of learning (?)

Some very good "video bites" in this short piece about how schools need to change. i like the way the video is put together - short, snappy and sharp; with plenty of good ideas about how young people are learning more outside of school these days, via the social networking sites - which are all blocked inside schools.

But 21st century learning will need to dig deep into wider educational networking possibilities, say these talking heads.

i spoke recently with someone from one of the bigger TAFE colleges .. who explained why places like You Tube are blocked. There's only a certain amount of bandwidth available, and if students are using it all watching music videos in the break (or in the classroom), that creates a huge problem.

Others of us, from the smaller community centres, were asking why they didn't use "bandwidth shaping", so that You Tube would get eg 5% of the bandwidth or even less at certain times of the day.

The TAFE people probably though we were know-it-all smart-alecs who just didn't appreciate the difficulties of working with huge institutional information technology departments.

i remember Robyn and Alex's enormous frustration last year during their NSW Learnscope travels; when they would arrive to find everything blocked.




(via Betch @ edublogs)