Thoughts after watching “a day made of glass” and the “Microsoft
Productivity future vision” pieces.
Education is about building internalized models of reality.
These models are then used to inform our actions with respect to possible futures.
In the corning model, a model of light mixing was played
with in a very high tech way on a light table. This example was presumably
chosen as content which would be immediately clear when you saw it on the video
clip. The learning involved a group collaborating
to explore a cool educational artefact. As a model of collaborative and group
education it was a nice example. The
park scene showing the dinosaurs was another easy pick up with its reference to
the movie Jurassic park.
The Microsoft educational vision was weaker. Although the
whole tone of the video was corporate, the educational segment showed drill and
kill math teaching with 20 year old graphics of a Bear. The use of high tech to avoid the effort of
opening the fridge door… How cool/pointless was that?
Education is a conversation. It is a communication. It is
articulated structured and may contain Satori moments, but at the end of the
day it’s a two way flow of information.
The corning vision showed an enriched channel with more interactions
going in more directions.
My vote Corning: +1, Microsoft: try again.
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