Yesterday evening (March 11, 2009) I attended Thomas Frey’s Webinar on the future of education titled, Radical Shifts are About to Begin. Similar to his 2007 article, “The Future of Education” Thomas opened his presentation summarizing his thoughts on problems which hold countries back and then hit a few points found within his article. Perhaps my expectations were too high, but I was hoping Frey would go more in depth into his ideas. The entire presentation came across as a freshman level course instead of a post-graduate thesis. As I was saying perhaps my expectations were too high. Additionally, the presentation was presented using the Elluminate Live environment, which had includes a white board and chat window among other features. While the chat area had numerous side conversations going on pertaining to the presentation, the whiteboard area was not used (except for at the beginning of the presentation where the host asked everyone to ping their location on a map). Frey discussed using technology in education, while at the same time he chose not to use the technology available for his presentation. Perhaps my expectations were too high, but why use an interactive environment for your presentation without using the environment itself!? Especially a the topic titled “The Future of Education.” Granted Frey explained that he is an outsider to the educational system, but still I don’t think that is explanation is enough. Please don’t get me wrong, Frey’s presentation was good and his article is even better; I was just expecting more.
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