samuel337 | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 04 2008 | education, australia
"It’s obvious that Australia’s Digital Education Revolution(s) has massive potential for changing the face of education as we’ve known it for the past 50 or so years. But it also has the potential to be the biggest, most-expensive flop ever undertaken by any education system in the world... The real problems are not technical problems at all - they are all social problems."
Our education system needs a serious revamp, and a technical wizardry just isn't going to be enough. The facilities, teachers, methodology, syllabus... everything.
P.S. anyone find it funny Rudd's holding up a laptop from last century?
- samuel337 | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 06 2008 | uni, australia, victoria, education
"Many of the most daring entrepreneurial ideas in the world right now are IT-related... "I was at uni for three years and didn't attend for two of them," Mr Bana says. "I would learn more (about IT) sitting at home hacking into ISPs and drinking lots of coffee. I had ideas, but uni wasn't the place for that. What they're doing is out of date. When I came out of uni I really wanted to change the 'this is a student, he is an empty vessel, we shall pour knowledge into him' attitude.""
I'm already feeling this, and I'm only a few days into my new course :( RMIT is involved in this trial, so maybe there's hope later down the track...
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