Dear all, dear Kelly

for the Graphic Design-Schenevus answer, I have to admit: my students are more tech-literate than I am, and I think our role is changing from teacher to tutor, as far as those questions are concerned.
The problem, as Kelly indirectly notes: we are in a trusted relationship, and not in the authority seat, so grades-based learning is out of the door.
And what am I doing now? assuming the grade-based evaluation style....
Good papers, so...
Best
Achim
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Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2010 10:02 AM
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Subject: Re: 21 Things That Will Be Obsolete in Education By 2020

My random thoughts in random order:
- The author underestimates a few things, which result in his somewhat unrealistic timeline for a few items on his list. For example, the degree of inertia in our public education system, the lack of $ put into that system, and finally the economic divide between different school districts (which we in this area are all too aware of)
- As for the SAT's- the ETS has been aware of this for at least 5 years and has been planning (plotting) accordingly
- Many of us on campus are already on the 24/7 schedule because of technology
- For my childrens' sake, I hope the abolition of grade-based learning doesn't take 10 years
- Graphic design and webmastering? The Schenevus journalism class already maintains the school website and I regularly give my daughter to-do lists and let her at the computer. She had an English project in which her group wrote and filmed a video. I gave her a few props from the lab/kitchen and showed her how to open the video editing program. That's it. She figured out how to edit, add sound effects/music/titles, etc.

 As for the school lunches, that is truly wishful thinking....

Now, off to grade those pencil and paper final exams- oh to fast-forward to 2020!

-k

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Kelly Ryan Gallagher
Assistant Professor and Chair
Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry
SUNY- College at Oneonta
Oneonta, NY 13820
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Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2010 8:35 AM
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TBers,

http://edustange.posterous.com/21-things-that-will-become-obsolete-in-educat

without comment no less....

Mr. James B. Greenberg
Director Teaching, Learning and Technology Center
Milne Library
SUNY College at Oneonta
Oneonta, New York 13820

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