Current curricula are built around content especially at the GER level-- English Lit is about reading from Beowulf to Virginia Woolf; intro psych, history, and so on all focus on relatively fixed content still. it's why those courses use textbooks.

advanced and graduate work is more fluid.

When GER shifts to a more conversational and connected model, then you'll shift in role of content in those courses. But academic disciplines are inherently conservative and slow to change.

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We need to consider framework of knowledge and how it is disseminated.

Have room for optomism in our learning spaces. Educators are optomistic at level GS hasn't seen in five or six years. We have tools to make ideals come to life.

Learners have role in process.

Benkler quote: ""allows us to negotiate the terms of freedom,jusicte and productivity in a the information society."

Not exclusively about technology has much more to do with societal changes and technology in enabler of those changes. Change wags the technology dog?

Gates: "even when they're working exactly as designed -- cannot teach our" kids what they need to know.

Diagram: Change pressures create new methods (enabled by technology). Wiki, for example is reaction to change pressures. Right now they enable to interact w/ knowledge.

New methods create new structures/spaces (Wiki, Blogs, etc.)

New methods create new affordances and that leads to new change pressures.

Industries addressing change by shifting to new technologies and platforms. In five years maybe no longer a NY Times print edition for example.

Businesses altering models but education hasn't made as much progress.

Education is more holistic than other industries?

Good experts leave you with more questions than answers. Context matters.

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