A terribly disappointing education policy
This is a test to see is ScribeFire works while responding to David Warlick’s post. Kate Olson over at Kate Says blogged about her experiment with ScribeFire and it sounded like a very convenient add-on to Firefox. Thanks Kate. I just checked the first sentence in ScribeFire and it works–so on with it.
I think David is absolutely correct when he says:
The nature of information has changed — not in what it does and what it means, but in what it looks like, how it flows and grows, and where and whom it comes from, how we find it, what we use to find it, … It means that there is still much that needs to be taught.
The days are long gone when an educated adult in front of the classroom was the source of knowledge. Knowledge today is everywhere and is constantly being refined and grown by all of us web workers. What we educators have to teach is wisdom, judgment, and how to use the ever-widening digital tools collection skillfully. We also need to cultivate and teach creativity and design. And we will not get there by using a Model T school organization–a school system designed at the end of the 19th century when our school system was “preparing” students for a vastly different reality.
The vent (Let’s just put them all in jail 24/7) that David refers to in his blog was a reaction to Arne Duncan’s incredible ignorance–that school should be 11 months a year and entail longer days. As I’ve noted before, we are too concerned with “school” to the detriment of learning. Not all learning takes place in school–and that statement is even truer today. One third of students drop out and countless others despise school and simply play the game by dropping out mentally and doing the minimal. We are loosing an incredible amount of our future and we don’t seem to give a damn. Generally, we are not reinventing or reimagining but rehashing the old ideas with the old assumptions–AND I GUESS IT SIMPLY DOESN’T HURT ENOUGH for us to collectively get off of our asses and get on with the business of learning. “Change is not necessary. Survival is not mandatory.” (Deming)
Our stupidity, laziness, and lack of courage is a site to behold!
eventhough I squander the majority of my night on the web taking part in games like myspace poker or pet society, I still like to spend some free time to research a small amount of sites now and then and I’m content to report this recent posting is in actual fact quite good and a great deal better than half the other poor quality trash I read today , at any rate i’m going to have fun with a smattering of hands of facebook poker