{"id":13556,"date":"2016-08-08T07:33:44","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T13:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/?p=13556"},"modified":"2016-08-08T07:33:44","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T13:33:44","slug":"montana-ethic-project-big-changes-in-store-for-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/2016\/08\/montana-ethic-project-big-changes-in-store-for-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Montana Ethic Project: Big changes in store for education"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Joey and Libby Early<\/p>

James Shanley, a former president of Fort Peck Community\u00a0College, talks about the huge changes he sees in the future of education.<\/p><\/div>\n

This is the 23nd chapter of the 32-part video series \u201cThe Montana Ethic Project.\u201d This chapter features James Shanley, the retired president of Fort Peck Community College and a former president of the American Indian Higher Education Consortium, discussing the subject of “Education Reform.” You can watch the whole video below. Here is an edited transcript of how it begins:<\/p>\n

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“I entitled this talk, ‘Humpty Dumpty: The Future of Education.’<\/p>\n

“We all know that all the king\u2019s horses and all the king\u2019s men could not put Humpty Dumpty back\u00a0together again. My observations are that the educational system in the United States is very much like\u00a0Humpty Dumpty. Because of this we are going to see dramatic transformations in the current K-12 and\u00a0higher education systems.”<\/p>\n

Here is another, edited excerpt from Shanley’s\u00a0presentation<\/em>:<\/p>\n

“What is necessary in order to educate a person, to give them problem solving abilities, concept solving\u00a0capabilities, to build the whole mental framework that will move them forward in the future? Education\u00a0hasn\u2019t figured that out yet. Even though we have the most scientific data on how a human being learns,\u00a0how a brain and our body functions on one hand, we still haven\u2019t found a way to combine this data with\u00a0our medieval system of higher education on the other. Both decks haven\u2019t been shuffled together. This\u00a0is going to cause a tremendous rift when it is shuffled because there are so many different stakeholders\u00a0who have a piece of the present system who don\u2019t want to see it changed.<\/p>\n

“If you\u2019ve been teaching for 25 or 30 years, on tenure, looking to cruise your last 10 years to retirement,\u00a0you certainly don\u2019t want to see this system changed!<\/p>\n

“So I don\u2019t know if there is a way that we can prevent Humpty from cracking. And perhaps we shouldn\u2019t.\u00a0Our culture and our information processes are changing so fast that they may push ol’ Humpty off the\u00a0wall whether we want them to or not. But we need to start discussing possible solutions.”<\/p>\n