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The New Story presentation that David Warlick is sharing is compelling, but it seems there must be some intermediary steps in order to get there.

One of the best examples is that the road to the New Story about education has to accommodate some of the institutionalized aspects of Industrialized education, at least initially. So the question is how we can begin the new story in education, defined by flexibility, communication and collaboration, and authentic learning while the social limits brought by our industrial society.

Here are some examples of what I mean.

School Day
The rigidity of the school day has long been based on the bell structure originated in industrial factories. How can we accommodate the fact that schools must take care of children during the work day, while breaking from the rigid structure that seems inconsistent with the flexibility required by the information society we are transforming into.

I'm blogging David Warlick's keynote at WOW today. He is talking about blogging, wikis, and the new way knowledge is being consumed and how Web 2.0 is helping us find, consume, discuss, and add information to the educational landscape. I'm using this keynote to jump back into blogging again (he invited us to blog about his keynote so I decided I would).
The part that I enjoyed the most were his comments about learning from the conversation. He made a statement indicating that as teachers we needs to stop teaching our students to assume authority and instead help them learn how to prove authority. Why is this is a good thing? One reason is because exploration is exciting and helping students learn how to prove authority is actually a process of exploration. In fact, I honestly believe that exploration is one of the truest forms of learning. It is encountering something new and making it something known. In fact, isn't that one of the goals of education. The great thing about exploration is that, by its very nature, it is exciting and we explore those things in which we have interest.