Open, Social and Participatory? Who's driving the bus?

In this week’s module we were posed the following questions:

• How would curriculum change if our priority approach was on critical, creative, and collaborative thinking?

• What does the reality of the modern age of information– this age of Google –suggest that we “teach”?

• Can we simply “update” things as we go, or is it time for rethinking of our collective practice?

I was forwarded this very provocative article from the Atlantic by my boss this week = “The deconstruction of the K-12 teacher” It ties in quite nicely with the theme of this module, but it also turns the questions on their heads... 

Who is driving this bus? I get the feeling that many educators are feeling like passengers, some willingly paid for the ride, some were forced to embark, some think they’re the conductor or the ticket collector,  But who has set the itinerary, and is there a driver or is it a unmanned ground or cloud vehicle?

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