I really appreciate her clarity.
This is the paragraph that really stuck with me:
"Education has an enormous role to play in this conversation. But that is not going to happen until we extend our idea of pressing problems beyond anxiety about the sustainability of our current financial models and until we stop expecting technology to "transform" our situation. The real forces that define the horizons for our faculty and our students are not Facebook, iPads, or MOOCs. The real forces are the silos that disciplines create and inhabit, the departmental structures that make the organization of knowledge an organization of power, the knowledge fragmentation that is an inevitable consequence, and the extravagant overvaluation of an increasingly narrow expertise.
At the moment, our use of technology in higher education serves to perpetuate this world rather than to challenge or transform it. Had we the courage and the imagination to address these issues, we would indeed have a shot at using technology in ways that would do justice to its formidable potential."
Best,
Rhea