education and info lit week 2 – lecture b. why are we having this conversation? people and their...
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Education and Info Lit
Week 2 – Lecture B
Why are we having this conversation?
People and their Lives
Social and Historical Influences
Current Conditions
Emerging Challenges
and Opportunities
John Bransford
Historical Trends in Education(See Amirault & Branson – Educators and Expertise: A Brief History of Theories and Models)
Ancient and Medieval
Individualized / small group instruction
Education for the few Instructor as subject
matter expert
Informal or oral assessment
Modern Mass education
Education for the many Instructor as expert in
educational techniques Formal, objective, and
measurable assessment
And Post-Modern??
Development of American Schooling(See Collins and Halverson, Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology.For alternate views, see Tyack’s Ways of seeing: an essay on the history of compulsory schooling)
Invention of the Printing Press Immutable mobiles
Reformation Primacy of individually acquired knowledge
1642 Massachusetts law Massachusetts Act of 1647
American Revolution Enlightenment Voting rights
Citizens who understand and able to defend their rights
Development of American Schooling(See Collins and Halverson, Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology.For alternate views, see Tyack’s Ways of seeing: an essay on the history of compulsory schooling)
Industrial Revolution Arrival of immigrants
Need for social cohesion Path to security/success
State-provided schools Parental assumption - learning generally happens in the
classroom The School System
Compulsory attendance Graded schools Tests Textbooks “Carnegie units” Comprehensive high schools
From Melting Pot to Mixed Salad
1820 – 1920 was high urbanization 1836 – 1914 large immigration from southern and
eastern Europe Urbanization and immigration leads to compulsory
education and schooling as a system 2000 – 2005 large wave of immigration from Asia and
Latin American What does this all mean for learning today?
Development of American Schooling(See Collins and Halverson, Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology.For alternate views, see Tyack’s Ways of seeing: an essay on the history of compulsory schooling)
“The elements of the new design of schooling evolved together into a coherent system to meet the demands of a democratic and growing society. But as the system became more rigid, it ceased to evolve as the society around it continued to evolve, and so in recent years, it has become more and more out of sync with the demands of a continually evolving society.”
So what kind of system do we need today?
Why information literacy in libraries?
Higher Education Entering the discipline’s conversation Expectation of student’s abilities
Public Libraries Developed to educate the masses (similar time frame to K-12) Public access computers
K - 12 1983 - A Nation at Risk 1991 - Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills
(SCANS) Business Settings
Workers’ use of technology Basically, because they’ve had to!
Next week – Models and Standards