Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan seems to be popping up everywhere again, in THE GUARDIAN, Nick Carr is writing about him, and more indepth on his blog. Finding new love for McLuhan in the internet age is nothing new though, he's been the 'patron saint' of WIRED magazine for ages.
A recent hit YouTube video on the modern educational experience also began with a McLuhan quote.
"Today's child is bewildered when he enters the 19th century environment that still characterises the educational establishment where information is scarce but ordered and structured by fragmented, classified pattern subjects and schedules" - McLuhan 1967
Effective education in today's world is far removed from the classroom experience that our parents, or even we oursleves experienced. An effective educator needs to be able to teach for a vareity of learning styles, lifestyles and individual students needs. From this outside this can look disorganised and unstructured, chaotic and undisciplined. But from the users experience, it is education that is engaging, personalised and incredibly effective.
One of the things I love about working at FTI is that we often try out new ways of teaching, experiment and adapt. The team make constant change to our programs, they are living creatures, adapting and transforming as the world and industry around us changes at a rapid rate. There has been much debate about how McLuhan's theories and writings apply to the internet age, but I wonder if they can also been used to guide approaches in learning and eduction?
Leave a comment