The Shifts 11 Dec 2006 02:50 pm
Time: How to Bring Our Schools Out of the 20th Century
So here are Time’s recommendations:
1. Teach kids more about the world.
2. Think outside the box.
3. Become smarter about new sources of information.
4. Develop good people skills. (Communicate, collaborate)
We can do that.
technorati tags:school20, learning20, education
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Imagine if any of us had the courage to actually say what we would do.
Are you as tired as I am of empty platitudes and populist slogans?
We would all be well-advised to read or re-read one of Seymour Papert’s books.
Geez….. You mean we’ve made it to the 20th! We’re not as far behind as I thought!
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Will,
I can not beleive how appropriate your timing is!!! I am teaching a course tomorrow called “Walking the Walk” all about these skills! What way to motivate and start the class! I’m so happy!!
MD
Bringing Our Schools Out of the 20th Century…
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I REALLY enjoyed this article! TIME published another article awhile back that I enjoyed as well…
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1174824-1,00.html
I thought you might want to check it out.
[...] Will Richardson bullets a list of main points, and Dave Warlick pulls what’s probably the strongest quote in the article. I also like this quote: American schools aren’t exactly frozen in time, but considering the pace of change in other areas of life, our public schools tend to feel like throwbacks. … A yawning chasm (with an emphasis on yawning) separates the world inside the school house from the world outside. [...]
[...] You’ve probably already read this article (and if you haven’t you should – here’s the link), or have read about this article (like here, here or here), but I like this article enough to comment about it (maybe more than once). [...]