John Seely Brown on the future of education: "Rather than treat pedagogy as the transfer of knowledge from teachers who are experts to students who are receptacles, educators should consider more hands-on and informal types of learning. These methods are closer to an apprenticeship, a farther-reaching, more multilayered approach than traditional formal education...
"'We are learning in and through our interactions with others while doing real things,' Seely Brown said. 'I'm not saying that knowledge is socially constructed, but our understanding of that knowledge is socially constructed'...
"The Internet is also helping drive a transformation from a mass media model--where information is delivered from experts to consumers--to a situation that allows people to create content online, often by using existing content, he said." /CNET News.com/
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