1. 2.2 The Paradigm Shift in Education Our Educational System Convention Information-age Education

2. Traditional Practice for Education Our educational system was designed to teach students the basic facts and survival skills needed to work in industry and agriculture. (Not much change over the last hundred years.) Assumptions: All students learn the same way. The teacher’s job is more of pouring facts. Students will work individually, absorb facts, and sit quietly in rows.

3. Now time has changed! What education should provide in this Information Age: –Technological familiarity –Literacy (language, numeric, computer) –Culture & Communication importance of Workgroup as collaborators and peers –Ways of learning how to learn generic survival skills! as power productivity worker adaptive to various dynamically changing information tools

4. Paradigm Shift in Education: A Summary from training-oriented to knowledge-oriented teaching process  teaching/learning process teaching tools shift more to learning tools and environment schools will dissolve into part of a total learning ecology

5. Paradigm Shift in Education: A Summary (cont’d) Though the high goal of education still remains, but The teacher’s role as the authoritative knowledge holder will change! Teacher will shift to act as a knowledge interactor and/or a facilitator and an enabler  teacher is also the learner and/or tutee in the process! < Teacher-centred  Learner-Centred  learners will seek for the best learning facilitators in the global education market place!>

6. “Thirty years from now the big university campuses will be relics. Universities won’t survive. … Such totally uncontrollable expenditures, … means that the system is rapidly becoming untenable.” - Peter F. Drucker, Forbes, March 1997.