Caught this poster over on Cathy Nelson’s TechnoTuesday blog… it’s so simple it’s powerful.
This poster speaks volumes about the changing nature of our world. What does it mean for our schools? Just what to we need to be teaching our kids when all “knowledge” is a couple of mouse-clicks away?
I sent this out to our teachers today with a challenge. As we spend our last few days at schools this term, and move into summer renewal, take some time to reflect just what this should mean to us as teachers.
How should the increasingly connected nature of our global community – and our kids as individuals – be reflected in our schools? What should the shift in learning look like in their classroom?
I hope at least some of them take some time this summer to think about the massive shift needed in our schools to help our kids prepare for a connected and collaborative future in which they will work, play and learn – and what they can do to start shifting their individual classrooms.
tags: technology, education, whipple
I agree! These new research skills will be critical in the future, no matter what the future will bring (see Dave Riddell’s post: http://tinyurl.com/3mungm). I’d also mention that there is still some value, I think, in having a basic, factual background, at least for scientists. As a grad student I find myself doing a mix of looking up things that I know I’ve forgotten, and drawing on the knowledge that I do remember from my undergraduate days.
Thanks and I can’t take total credit on the quote–I saw it this morning in my reader here:
http://itsthinktank.blogspot.com/2008/06/quote.html