as a future educator, i’m thoroughly interested in where the future of education will take us. it is frustrating how inefficient our current system is. every generations future is developed in their students and education should therefore be of top priority for everyone.

imagine a the best possible education system, and try to imagine who it would ‘produce’. it gets me excited just thinking about the possibilities.

it’s time for our education to enter a new century. and i agree, not an umbrella over our existing system, we need new bottom-up approaches.

courseware is a wonderful idea to make education accessible for all. but i think there will always be a place for classrooms and teachers. just as much progress needs to be made in teacher education, so that we have an army of effective, passionate teachers leading the way.

i’m going to be doing a presentation tomorrow in my 4th year education class, and i will be mentioning your blog for sure.

thanks for the refreshing read.

If I may: I think you need a new dress for Wordpress so it can have more features. I’m imagining below the usual pages/nav tabs would be a video reel (click back and forth for featured vids), on the left column, linked to your facebook and twitter, allow us to rate, comment, and share with as many networks as possible, have an obvious RSS button smwhere at the top, allow trackbacks. Build a community platform and let us expand our ideas around yours.

I’m sorry if I sound obnoxious been up all night. I just wish I had more insight and substance as you do, which obviously I don’t. I’ve been building my website and wordpress and moodle for fun even though I realize I have no idea what’s my content and direction really going to be, just making as many mistakes as I can so i have to keep looking for answers.

But one epiphany I had this last few months (and I am a traditional ESL classroom teacher) is how important the visual element and user experience really is. I don’t know what happened but suddenly it struck me I’ve underestimated that visual/interactive/experiential factor even though it’s not like I’ve never heard of the idea.

So now I find your content and I would really like you to leverage. Like me, I got nothing to leverage, LOL. See how hard I try : http://www.englishforasians.com

Eric Qualman of Socialnomics has less substance, though still substantial, than Clay Shirky, Seth Godin and Jeff Jarvis and the likes but he leverages social media like nobody’s business. He may even have a chance of making us forget Scott Mcleod and Karl Fishcher’s work with his phenomenal ability to get attention in an ADD economy. I mean to say content is gold but Leverage scoops it out for all to see it in its glory .

What tools and feeds can we seed ourselves around you? Is there a wishlist you have of things you wished you could do but instead your fans can do for you?

Time is moving faster and we’re in need of leadership. Be seen.

Tom

You site eye-opening statistics about the bombardment of information on the average student. What will an average curriculum, basic diploma, look like? What will a college expect of its undergraduates to complete something as simple as an English or Sociology degree; in a hundred years, will Moby Dick measure up against the millions of novels that will be written?