The Future of Ed Reform?

What is the future of education reform? How are we being educated today? What can we do to improve? There is a major dialectic evolving from the clash between the industrialization form of education and todays "linked information" education. Neil Postman's list that defines the academic realm in his 1969 book, "Teaching as a Subversive Activity", is still relevant to the university setting we see today.

• Passive acceptance is a more desirable response to ideas than active criticism.
• Discovering knowledge is beyond the power of the students.
• Recall is the highest form of intellectual achievement, aand the collection of unrelated "facts" is the goal of education.
• The voice of authority is to be trusted and valued more than independent judgement
• One's own ideas and those of one's classmates are inconsequential.
• Feelings are irrelevant in education.
• A subject is something you "take" and, when you have taken it, you have "had" it, and if you have "had" it, you are immune and need not take it again.
• There is always a single right answer.

The video at the top of this post exposes the redundancy of education reform. The author is correct in asking: Will education reform be any different this time? I would argue that it already is. Education is already within flux due to its dependency on material culture. Technology is slowly invading the college campuses, and the students are manipulating the tools to achieve academic standards. The standards are starting to become irrelevant, and a students success in the world, outside the campus, is hinging on their capacity for new media literacy.

It is no longer purely "what you know."

It is "what you know, and how you learn more."

The infrastructure of the barrel is changing (Environment -> Infrastructure -> Social Structure -> Superstructure). The infrastructure change is causing cracks in our "Academic" model. The superstructure components (Values, Ideas, Concepts) are solidified in old perceptions of academia. Reformation is necessary and already happening. What can we do to solidify the structure?

What can we do to update an old system?... This