Education Leadership's article, "Rigor Redefined", written by Tony Wagner talked about how our students today are learning. How school's aren't fully preparing students for the future and it showed various things a student should be learning.
Starting off the article, Wagner said, "Even our "best" schools are failing to prepare students for 21st-century careers and citizenship.” What does it mean when even our “best” schools can’t teach our students what they need to know? It means we should start changing how and what we teach students. The article gave seven skills that students should be learning for the future: critical thinking and problem solving, collaboration and leadership, agility and adaptability, initiative and entrepreneurialism, effective oral and written communication, accessing and analyzing information, and curiosity and imagination. Instead of always teaching students what they need to know on tests, they should be taught skills needed to face the 21st-century. Getting schools to reach this point of teaching may take a lot of changes and new ideas but if done, all students would be much more prepared for what is to come.
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Thursday, November 4, 2010
The Machine (Us)
Michael Wesch’s video, “Web 2.0 … The machine is Us/ing Us“ was interesting. It explained, described, and showed the Web 2.0 today. How it works and how it’s changing. It told how we are the Web 2.0.
Ever since the internet was created we have being modifying it and creating it in to the Web 2.0 we know today. We create websites, put up videos, pictures, create accounts, and more. As time goes on we teach “the machine” more and more; how to do things easier and more efficient. The video shows us that we are the machine. We make up and form the Web 2.0. It’s all of us linking and joining together in tons of ways. While more people are using the web more often, don’t you wonder if it’s always a good thing? Yes, it’s easier but at what point will technology become too much a part of our lives? Will having this easy, efficient way of doing things make us lazy? Maybe, but this won’t stop people from working on it. The Web 2.0 is changing the world or you could say WE are changing the world.
Ever since the internet was created we have being modifying it and creating it in to the Web 2.0 we know today. We create websites, put up videos, pictures, create accounts, and more. As time goes on we teach “the machine” more and more; how to do things easier and more efficient. The video shows us that we are the machine. We make up and form the Web 2.0. It’s all of us linking and joining together in tons of ways. While more people are using the web more often, don’t you wonder if it’s always a good thing? Yes, it’s easier but at what point will technology become too much a part of our lives? Will having this easy, efficient way of doing things make us lazy? Maybe, but this won’t stop people from working on it. The Web 2.0 is changing the world or you could say WE are changing the world.
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