Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

This video has been blogged on numerous sites. And it is definitely worth the five minutes it takes to watch, partially because a lot of what it says rings true, and partially because it is produced by Pearson, which means it's being shown to the suit-and-tie set.

But it should be viewed critically. Chris Lehman writes "now we have another 'Did You Know" style video. But now, it's been made, not by a teacher trying to shake up a faculty, but by a multi-national corporation that has seen a 60% rise in stock price since 2003 and a product line that includes a district-wide web-based benchmark testing program... There are a lot of ideas in that video that I agree with, heck, if you parsed that video carefully, you'd find some powerful similarities between many of the ideas and the keynote speech I gave last week. But let's make sure we keep asking ourselves how these ideas are being presented and who is presenting them... What should worry us is that Pearson -- and many companies like them -- are ready to sell us the product that they swear will move us there. And I, for one, don't believe them."

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