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Flat World Literacy…
October 31, 2006 | 1 Comment
I have been reading lots of blogs lately…but none seem more relevant to me that David Warlick’s. I’ve been reflecting on yesterday’s post for a couple of hours…and this part stands out for me…
Many people talk about how technology is so much more engaging to kids, that it’s why they work harder on projects such as this. This is true, but I think it’s much more fundamental. I think its about power. The purpose of most classrooms is to disempower students. We sentence them to a desk, to a chapter in a text book, to listen to, note, and remember a lecture, to passively receive, accept, and repeat. When students are given access to information and asked to use it as a raw material, and the technology to work the information, they become information artisans — they become empowered learners.
David always makes a connection back to the information, and it’s beginning to sink in…our current (for the most part) educational environments were adequate for preparing our students for the vertical economy of yesterday, but tomorrow’s flat world requires empowered decision-makes who can work collaboratively with one another…our learning environments should reflect that…
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Jeff,
Have you been following the changes regarding school websites in Nova Scotia?
Here is a news story:
http://www.hfxnews.ca/index.cfm?sid=9257&sc=2
It seems that all the stakeholders are not being considered as these policy revisions are occuring.