Chris Sessums summarizes a debate he recently attended on whether transformations in learning should be a function of evolution or a revolution : "Should change evolve incrementally over time or is a more radical approach required to transform learning and teaching in an increasingly e-world? "
Change doesn't happen by itself...and how we respond is often not directly related to change at all, but our own comfort level and willingness to experiment. In terms of evolution/revolution - I think those lines are being drawn for us (much like they were in the music industry 7-8 years ago, and like they are being drawn in the traditional media/news industry today). Change forces are not about us. They are about large-scale, societal trends. Educations role, in theory, is to adapt or die. The longer we wait to take evolutionary paths (which we should have been taking about thirty years ago when people started exploring changing notions of what it means to learn), the more certain it is that we will be required to take a revolutionary path. Ask TV executives or newspaper editors whether they are adapting through evolution or revolution (it's all about revolution in that space...change pressures built and in a span of a year or two, re-wrote the industry). Our turn as educators is next :).