{"id":5120,"date":"2009-06-25T14:59:59","date_gmt":"2009-06-25T14:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2009\/06\/igens-google-and-the-future-of.html"},"modified":"2009-06-25T14:59:59","modified_gmt":"2009-06-25T14:59:59","slug":"igens-google-and-the-future-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2009\/06\/igens-google-and-the-future-of.html","title":{"rendered":"iGens, Google, and the Future of Universities"},"content":{"rendered":"

I found this article by Don Tapscott at Edge: The Third Culture <\/a>through a tweet by Brad Boydston, and want to throw it out here for a conversation. Essentially, he argues the idea that the current generations learning style, absorbed as it is through internet culture and learning, at variance with current teaching styles. If you can wade through his incredibly misinformed stereotype and simplistic alternatives, he does get to the bottom of some serious issues.<\/p>\n

\n

Universities
\nare finally losing their monopoly on higher learning, as the web inexorably
\nbecomes the dominant infrastructure for knowledge serving both as a container
\nand as a global platform for knowledge exchange between people. <\/font><\/i><\/p>\n

Meanwhile
\non campus, there is fundamental challenge to the foundational modus operandi<\/em> of the University — the model of pedagogy. Specifically, there
\nis a widening gap between the model of learning offered by many big
\nuniversities and the natural way that young people who have grown up
\ndigital best learn. <\/font><\/i><\/p>\n

The old-style
\nlecture, with the professor standing at the podium in front of a large
\ngroup of students, is still a fixture of university life on many campuses.
\nIt’s a model that is teacher-focused, one-way, one-size-fits-all and
\nthe student is isolated in the learning process. Yet the students,
\nwho have grown up in an interactive digital world, learn differently.
\nSchooled on Google and Wikipedia, they want to inquire, not rely on
\nthe professor for a detailed roadmap. They want an animated conversation,
\nnot a lecture. They want an interactive education, not a broadcast
\none that might have been perfectly fine for the Industrial Age, or
\neven for boomers. These students are making new demands of universities,
\nand if the universities try to ignore them, they will do so at their
\nperil.
<\/font><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Check out the responses<\/a>, too.<\/p>\n

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