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Quality Education Adult Learning Technology and the Future. Quality Education Basic Assumptions. The people who know the work best are the ones doing it. Groups of people working in teams usually have more success than individuals working alone. Decisions should be based on facts.
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Quality Education Basic Assumptions • The people who know the work best are the ones doing it. • Groups of people working in teams usually have more success than individuals working alone. • Decisions should be based on facts. • The basic causes of problems should be determined. • The great majority of what goes wrong in a school is due to the fault of the process, not to the fault of the individual. • Everyone needs to be involved in the process of continuous improvement. • The critical performance is thinking about better ways to get the job done. • Flexibility and change are imperative. By the time the right way is discovered, a new way is often required. • All students can learn at significantly higher levels. • Quality schools operate as learning organizations.
Adult Learning • Dr. Malcolm Knowles, Professor Emeritus of Adult Education, North Carolina State University • Andragogy - the practice of adult learning • Pedagogy - the practice of child learning
Axioms of Andragogy • Adults are motivated to learn as they develop needs and interests that learning will satisfy. • Adult orientation to learning is life- or work-centered. • Experience is the richest source for adult learning. • Adults have a deep need to be self-directing. • Individual differences among adult learners increase with age and experience.
Technology • Computer power before 1950 • Computer power before 1961 • $2.00 • Speed of sound • 600 miles per thimbleful
The Next Five Hundred Days • Your most important employee will quit. • A member of your family will be a victim of a felony crime. • You will be sued for being right. • You will become intensely interested in a totally alien idea. • You will actively pursue a career change.
The Next Five Hundred Weeks • China will have the world’s largest economy. • Airports & national parks will be privatized. • You will be in a career for which you never had any formal training. • Five million Americans will be over 100 years old and 30% of the labor force will be caring for the elderly. • Three new sciences that we cannot today imagine will have been invented.
The Next Five Hundred Months • The moon colony will mine rare earth metals. • Cyber-components will be commonplace in humans. • The leading cause of death will be epidemics. • English will be the dominant language of the world. • Each individual will have to pay for his/her own old-age care.
The Next Five Hundred Years • There will be fewer people alive than there are today. • The average human life span will be 800 years. • The average age of first marriage will be 75 years. • There will be no money standard. • The answer to the question, “Where are you from?” will be “Earth.”
