Digital learning is disruptive. The personalization of learning that it makes possible is a radical break from the course-and-class model of school with its technology of teacher-instruction. Personalization would change school, change teaching and change learning.
What is the best way to go about changing the long-standing system of schooling? It may be more difficult than many believe to realize digital electronics’ potential to improve learning. Success will require a radically different strategy. What might that be?
The authors of the Strategy for Realizing Digital report suggest: Start where schools make decisions, then consider rearranging “the system.” Go where the schools are able to make the decisions. Beyond that: Arrange for the schools to be able to make the decisions. Technology gets taken up most rapidly in a user-driven system. So work to turn K-12 into a user-driven system; the schools, their teachers and their students are the ‘users’.
Core Education is devoted to improving the systems that support teachers and students. By transforming educational systems to meet the needs of end users, we support the kind of transformational innovation envisioned by digital learning.
To view the report, see www.educationevolving.org
