by  bulliver 

My reaction to reading Edudemic’s How Technology is Changing Education as We Know It was mixed.

If education is made up of two main elements, teaching and learning, then I think that technology has done much to change learning but little to change teaching.

One of the key affordances of technology is providing access to resources. A learner does not have to wait to be taught. He or she can teach himself or herself if there is enough access.

On the other hand, teaching has not evolved much. It is still delivery-oriented instead of experience-oriented. Ask most learners to draw or describe a classroom and you will see what I mean. The fact that we even associate teaching with a classroom shows that there has been little change (this Swedish school bucks the trend).

The sad fact is that most classrooms today still limit access via technology. Teaching takes precedence over learning. Without this access, teaching can prevent learning.