TY - GEN
T1 - Personalized education
AU - Allenby, Braden
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Current methods of educating students are becoming increasingly obsolete. The cognitive processes, systems, and mechanisms by and through which students learn have changed dramatically, yet few professors have changed their pedagogical style. Accordingly, many students find themselves initially faced with classes that are unnecessarily difficult, frequently boring, of unexplained relevance, taught in increasingly obsolete ways by professors who are not only clueless about the way today's students - many of them digital natives who are intimately familiar with synthetic realities, social networking sites, and mashups that their elders may not even know exist - think, interact, and learn, but who are actively hostile to their student's cognitive patterns. The increasingly rapid evolution of information and communication technology - ICT - offers new and exciting options for education, but it is doubtful that the incremental and cautious pace of educational innovation seen today is adequate to introduce them.
AB - Current methods of educating students are becoming increasingly obsolete. The cognitive processes, systems, and mechanisms by and through which students learn have changed dramatically, yet few professors have changed their pedagogical style. Accordingly, many students find themselves initially faced with classes that are unnecessarily difficult, frequently boring, of unexplained relevance, taught in increasingly obsolete ways by professors who are not only clueless about the way today's students - many of them digital natives who are intimately familiar with synthetic realities, social networking sites, and mashups that their elders may not even know exist - think, interact, and learn, but who are actively hostile to their student's cognitive patterns. The increasingly rapid evolution of information and communication technology - ICT - offers new and exciting options for education, but it is doubtful that the incremental and cautious pace of educational innovation seen today is adequate to introduce them.
KW - Cognition
KW - Digital natives
KW - Education
KW - Educational innovation
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U2 - 10.1109/ISSST.2009.5156688
DO - 10.1109/ISSST.2009.5156688
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77951014264
SN - 9781424434565
T3 - 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology, ISSST '09 in Cooperation with 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society, ISTAS
BT - 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology, ISSST '09 in Cooperation with 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society, ISTAS
T2 - 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology, ISSST '09 in Cooperation with 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society, ISTAS
Y2 - 18 May 2009 through 20 May 2009
ER -