{"id":430,"date":"2010-03-20T04:50:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-20T04:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/the-future-of-education\/"},"modified":"2010-03-20T04:50:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-20T04:50:00","slug":"the-future-of-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/the-future-of-education\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future of Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a first crack at thinking about the &#8220;Future of Education&#8221;  question that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elearnspace.org\/blog\/\" title=\"George Siemens\" rel=\"homepage\">George Siemens<\/a> asked us. It is not a finished thesis but  just little old me reading off the back of the napkin. I am pretty  passionate about the future of education because the future is here now  and passing a lot of community college students by. It is not from a  lack of money but a lack of vision and will. As an instructional  designer and educator, I see nothing &#8220;theoretical&#8221; about this discussion  at all since the answers to the questions can mean real change for  people &#8211; just look at what is happening in open education resources and  open texts right now.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/cSRaCncVY-A&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/cSRaCncVY-A&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I threw in pictures that represented a history of futures and just basically played around with Garage Band.<\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend>Related articles by Zemanta<\/legend>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.downes.ca\/cgi-bin\/page.cgi?post=52004\">The Pad &#8211; Trends, drivers and a scenario from 1998<\/a> (downes.ca)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.masternewmedia.org\/media-literacy-making-sense-of-new-technologies-and-media_2009_11_08\/\">Media Literacy: Making Sense Of New Technologies And Media by George Siemens &#8211; Nov 08 09<\/a> (masternewmedia.org)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.downes.ca\/cgi-bin\/page.cgi?post=51933\">Collapsing to Connections<\/a> (downes.ca)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/mweller\/future-of-education-3475415\">Future of Education<\/a> (slideshare.net)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/fieldset>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/ece2d717-19ba-4c95-a523-37b8049b60da\/\" title=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?x-id=ece2d717-19ba-4c95-a523-37b8049b60da\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" \/><\/a><span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a first crack at thinking about the &#8220;Future of Education&#8221; question that George Siemens asked us. It is not a finished thesis but just little old me reading off the back of the napkin. I am pretty passionate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/the-future-of-education\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,936],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-future"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}