The lecture is becoming defunct… it’s a bad model of pedagogy – [the empty vessel idea] is a bad way of learning, we need a more sophiticated model… a hyperlinked stream of information is where we are going.

Donald’s book, Growing Up Digital has certainly ruffled a few feathers and a couple weeks ago he was on Spark with a really interesting interview that you can listen to.

There are quite a few ideas there that hopefully I’ll be able to get to one day. But the comment on the lecture is something that I think is really important – a lecture as a single stream of information is going to become increasingly hard to sell to students who crave more than one voice.

BTW, he’s another one who believes that personal use is a precondition to understanding and that is how change will come.

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