Education for Well-being Education as if people and the planet mattered

These quotes were pulled from Wes Fryer’s notes of Bruce Dixon’s session titled “21 Steps to 21st Century Learning” at the AALF / Oklahoma SDE 1:1 Learning Conference, November 30, 2009.

the skills that are easiest to teach and test are also the ones that are easiest to digitize and outsource

It’s the change underlying these tools that I’m trying to emphasize. Forget blogs…think open dialogue. Forget wikis…think collaboration. Forget podcasts…think democracy of voice. Forget RSS/aggregation…think personal networks. Forget any of the tools…and think instead of the fundamental restructuring of how knowledge is created, disseminated, shared, and validated. George Siemens

the world today is about being able to do what you were NOT taught to do

As Stephen Heppell says, our biggest challenge is not being audacious enough

1:1 is not 4 times better than 4:1 [student to computer ratios]

guess who leads the public debate in education today? It is journalists and politicians. It is about time we took the lead in setting the terms of that debate