paradise unplugged

I often read Miguel Guhlin’s “Around the Corner” blog, and a recent entry caught my eye. Caught my attention in a big way is probably a better way of putting it.

In his post Big Issues, Michel takes an educational spin at the comments on Stewart Mader’s blog on wiki patterns where in a recent post John Tropea: “tools are the conduit for this culture change” starts with the following quote:

John Tropea says people need to understand why they should use Web 2.0 tools in organizations, not just “because everyone else is doing it so I need to as well, and I’ll just use this recipe approach.”

Michel pulls out the questions asked in the article on Stewarts post, and rewrites them for use in a School situation.

• Where are the bottlenecks and obstacles that stop students from working to solve or raise awareness about relevant life issues in schools?
• Do teachers/students know how and can teachers easily get access to the information they need in a self-service manner with as little red tape as possible?
• Are students and teachers able to coalesce around common ideas instead of being isolated behind traditional school boundaries?

What are your views on these questions? Do they cover enough ground? What would you add?

I’m going to sit down with LG and nut this one out a bit. Let’s see what we can come up with, both in the questions, and more importantly, the answers.

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