At this year’s American Association of Community Colleges’ (AACC) Presidents Academy Summer Institute, I had the privilege and pleasure of listening to one of our profession’s most progressive and provocative teachers, Cole Camplese, who serves as the Senior Director for Teaching and Learning with Technology at Pennsylvania State University. During his presentation, he shared with us a student’s response to a survey question about what going to school is like…
“Going to school is like getting on a plane. You get in, sit down, strap in, and turn off all your stuff…. and you can't turn it back on until you land.”
If education is meant to help us be productive and fulfilled in the rest of our life, perhaps this “isolationist” approach may not be the best way to go about it…..
