A major function of college is to signal to potential employers that one is qualified to work. The Internet is replacing this signaling function. Employers are recruiting on LinkedIn, Facebook, StackOverflow and Behance. People are hiring on Twitter, selling their skills on Google, and creating personal portfolios to showcase their talent. Because we can document our accomplishments, and have them socially validated with tools such as LinkedIn Recommendations, we can turn experiences into opportunity. As more and more people graduate from college, employers are unable to discriminate among job seekers based on a college degree and can instead hire employees based on their talents.
we're thinking the key is the above.
not whether or not a person should learn one way or another.. there is validity in many different ways to go at learning/living. the problem comes when people assume there is only one way..
we don't think ed needs to change much.. what needs to change is who's together in a room, per choice. Dale's above words helps offer permission and choice to some who are just doing what their told at this point.
we need to offer more permission without pigeon holing.
currently.. some people may prefer college, prefer grades, prefer whatever.
where we keep getting in the way is when we have this vision of the world opening up, and then get stuck in our particular version of it, thinking everyone will like our version.
the vision is - nothing is for everyone.
let's facilitate that.
ie: uni of the future - we're doing community as school, how about globe as uni
