Dr. Strawn is Chief Information Officer for the National Science Foundation, and he has been thinking about the future of education. He leaned heavily on Clayton Christensen's Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns. Sustaining technologies make things we have better incrementally, but disruptive technologies, while not necessarily improving the existing systems as well, bring in the new systems. Incoming AECT president Mary Herring made the point to me at the SL prep session that virtual worlds may be such a disruptive technology for education. Strawn mentioned other books to read, including one of my favorites, VS Ramachandran's Phantoms in the Brain. Any time you would like to hear me declaim on the topic of constructivism, brain science and virtual worlds, just ask. Then try to shut me up.
Strawn mentioned a number of interesting points derived from his reading. Among them, as science learns more about learning, educational systems will be more scientifically engineered. As new technologies make it easier to publish, we may publish everything, and let the peer review take place later as needed. Teaching modules may be created by teachers, students and parents, then placed on-line in a wiki format to be adopted by teachers, schools and managers of teaching systems.
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