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The Story-Centered Curriculum
From eLearn Magazine http://elearnmag.org
School has to change. The world has changed radically in the last 100 years while academia has stayed the same. This state of affairs must end or students will be learning increasingly irrelevant material taught using ever-more-outdated methods.
Professors talk. Students take notes. Then there is a test. Subjects are taught independently of each other in a strange smorgasbord approach that means graduates can barely remember what they learned the year before. At the university this state of affairs persists because professors have no interest in making anything change. They much prefer thinking about research to thinking how real learning takes place.
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About the author
Roger Schank has had a 35 year career as a professor of Computer Science at Stanford, Yale, Northwestern, and Carnegie Mellon. He retired early to pursue his dream of creating an online alternative to the current school system. The non-profit he runs, Engines for Education, will launch the first VISTA curriculum in September 2007.
Totally agree with the article. Why is it that education is so hard to move
foward? Is it because those who hold the purse strings dont have a vision?
Or is it the teachers unwillingness (not in all cases) to take on this new
technology.
