Mark Guzdial writes that a paradigm shift " is happening (and maybe has already happened) in research around education and educational technology from the world of Papert and Bruner to the world of learning sciences." But don't think this means anything like a general theory of learning. It's too context-specific. "This shift from the general to the specific, and from what could work to what does work is true in my research too," writes Guzdial. What bothers me, though, is fixing this context to "the reality of school in the U.S., where Thorndike won and Dewey lost." I don't think you can start from "where schools are now." I think that, in the long term, if there is a paradigm change coming, it will come from outside schools. Ceratinly outside U.S. schools. Image: Bond. et.al.
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