Movement from the static towards the dynamic end of the continuum requires flexibility and earnest resolve in restructuring pedagogical and instructional methods for the 21st Century and its learners. A teacher’s job is not only to educate others but to glean some wisdom for themselves. This may mean finding equilibrium between what has been done and what needs to be done. The tools of the trade have changed. Technology and its resources have provided new means of finding information and creating knowledge. In a static stage we remain fixed and predetermined in our ideas while dynamic interactions can be characterized by growth and progress.
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Rose,
"Flexibility." "Earnest resolve." These are qualities we all need to emulate if we are to reach through to the other side of eLearning's transformation.
Your focus on teachers' need to stay current with technology and pedagogy, while educating others is well placed.
I especially find your last sentence illuminating in its simple expression but broad implication. "Growth and progress" vs. "fixed and predetermined." I for one have no interest in "fixed and predetermined" beyond learning how to nurture "growth and progress." I do not want to - as Marshall McLuhan stated, cited by Moller (2008) - "march backwards into the future" (p. 1)
References
Moller, L. (2008). Static and Dynamic Technological Tools. [Unpublished Paper].
E-learning has the potential to transform the face of education. It will take innovation, confidence, and dedication to stare down the challengers who want the battle to begin with rivals back-to-back, taking 10 paces forward, only to turn around and try to accurately shoot the target. It's much easier when we are all (mostly) in accord, we see where we are going, and we can take aim in unison increasing our chances for progress and success.
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