http://digitaldigs.disqus.com/enWed, 15 Mar 2006 20:39:13 -0000http://www.alex-reid.net/2006/03/delivering_info.html#comment-1864192456<p>Great post Alex!<br>I work with faculty at a Community College in central NY and I used to work at your institution.<br>The point you raise about "redefining college" and "redefining academic life" is a good one. The present "terminal degree" approach/expectation of most graduate schools is not useful during times of rapid technological innovation. My PhD program was in the area of educational technology and ALL of my professors (UW-Madison) were well-schooled in reading/printed literacy, but were not well-versed in developing areas of technology. Again, these were folks who were devoting their professional lives to educational technology.<br>As a user of technology, and an optimist about the power it potentially brings to teaching and learning, the fact that these full-time "technology scholars" usually had graduate students using technology FOR THEM in class, created a condition where I could not respect them.<br>They could TALK technology, but they had no "chops." Can you respect a musician able to talk about music, but who can not perform? In large part, this was the situation. I soon lost interest in completing my terminal degree. They did not "get" it. And, given the exclusive nature of academe, it was apparent that I was not going to qualify for The Club.<br>Anyway, I have little real hope that today's professoriate will, in the time-frame you identify, accomplish much. Academe is not designed to reward risk taking and "different thinkers."<br>The incredible effort and expense you identify as necessary to bring even a small percentage of faculty into 21st century teaching, thinking, and learning environments is asking too much of of our institutions and many of our colleagues. But, as you note, 2015 will soon be upon us. That freshman class is already in the K-12 system today. I think it's going to become quite interesting.<br>How long will we remain relevant to the students? How long will PowerPoint hide our flawed approach to rethinking teaching and learning? Will learning/accomplishment ever replace seat-time as our most important metric?<br>Cheers!<br>KK</p>K KleinWed, 15 Mar 2006 20:39:13 -0000http://www.alex-reid.net/2006/03/delivering_info.html#comment-1864192457<p><strong>Sisyphus Taught Videography to Faculty</strong></p><p>One of these days Im going to have to figure out how to tweak my blogs CSS so that I can get my SUNYspecific blogroll section up. In the meantime, Im going to keep pointing to SUNY bloggers from time to time. Todays entr...</p>eLiterateTue, 07 Mar 2006 21:07:02 -0000