For those who are looking for “something a little different” from the feeds I’ve given to the class as a whole, let me recommend “Abject Learning” – another great Canadian blog.
When considering how changes in media might affect how education is delivered, I’ve been known to indulge in heaping helpings of hyperbolic speculation spiced with apocalyptic flavours. I can’t help myself, when I observe something like the meltdown of a cultural industry, my mind immediately begins toward similar scenarios in my own profession. Isn’t it possible that new media might spawn similar challenges to how education is funded and delivered? Are there equivalent threats to what Craigslist has meant to newspaper revenues out there?
Abject Learning: So it is, so shall it ever be….
In light of the conversations we’ve been having around here over the last couple of days, it’s good to remember that it’s not just teachers in the U.S. thinking this stuff.
September 10th, 2008 at 11:40 pm
Mentioning educational funding, what types of things could be differently used for funding. Are we talking advertisements? sponsors?
I might be completely off, but are they thinking maybe our new media might be cheaper. Use less paper, pencil, textbooks. Or is our educational money just be put into different things than they traditionally do.
Just a thought. Are we talking how we are spending funds or gaining revenue?
September 11th, 2008 at 12:06 am
New media is absolutely cheaper, but I don’t think that’s what Brian is talking about here. I think he’s talking about alternate distribution channels that subvert and make obsolete existing fiscal structures.
Craigslist is choking off the classified ad revenues of newspapers across the country.
Can something like that happen in Education?