In today’s rapidly changing world with our ability to access information with the click of a mouse many believe that the entire structure of how we think, teach, and learn is changing. As stated in his new article “What would Socrates say”? (7) By Holder of the Katsuso Scholarship at Yale, Author of “Trust: an education bill of rights”, and board member of the partnership for 21st century skills, ( Peter W Cookson) “Some of what constitutes this new approach to learning Is already underway” he feels that we are already sharing lessons via internet in schools and across the globe, and many people are converting to more of a collective way of thinking and learning reaching not only thousands but millions around the globe with their message.
In this new learning environment like the LearningSphere Cookson feels that we will add another dimension stating that “Teachers would learn alongside of their students creatively adapting curriculum to their students” This is more of a Socratic approach to teaching and learning promoting critical reflection, empirical reasoning, collective intelligence, and metacognition. There are already thousands of web sites where big decisions are made by putting a trust in the collective and many believe this will be the new answer to a democratic government.
It’s up to the new generation to organize this new way of education which is web based and the onset of the new pathway may even be rejected at first but as said by Cook in his article “What would Socrates Say” “When Einstein shocked the world by suggesting that energy equals mass multiplied by the speed of light squared, he gave us a new way to think about our world”(7). A new way to think about our world, scary, exciting, good, bad is not the issue because as the old adage goes, That cat is out of the bag, what are we going to do with it?
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