Paradigm Shift
“The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.” ~Einstein
In education, what is our paradigm? Is there a different paradigm for the different areas of education - literacy, technology, leadership, organization? Have some of these paradigms shifted more than others, or are what we think of as shifts merely modifications on the surface?
If we take ed tech - how would you articulate past, present and future paradigms? In other words how has our thinking changed? What does the history of thinking about the role of ed tech look like? And since our system consists of countless parts and pieces, what shifts need to occur in those areas to enable this shift in technology that we envision?
New ways of thinking differently have to occur across the system. How do we get leaders in the system to think differently? The fact that we have so many groups within the system - community, students, teachers, parents, school board, administrators - makes paradigm shifts even more challenging. And then there is government...politicians. They don’t make change any easier. How do you lead this change? How do we educate those that need to know about this new way of thinking?
It’s just what I’m thinking about this morning… 
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