What is happening now is that students are getting increasingly experienced with technology usage for their learning while their instructors learn to cope with old technologies. Is there going to be a bridge to close this gap?
Ajarn Simon-Peter,
You've asked the right question for 2015 and beyond. Already, you can see class after class where the teacher is monologuing up front, while the students are clearly disengaged: Facebooking, tweeting, messaging. We can continue to blame this on the quality of students entering, but it is not that hard to see that the classic lecturer will be replaced with a podcast at 1.5x speed.
We have to leverage that advantages of a classroom, the interaction with other students and teacher that can guide, and mix this with the power of a smartphone to create an interesting, challenging educational environment.
Thank you Brian. This is a worrying situation. We claim we are training students for the 21st century market. Who are the 21st century educators? What are their roles? How are they handling new and 21st century learning trends? Are they aware of the increase in unemployment rates? What are they doing about this since educators produce raw materials (graduates) for the job market.
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