Quote:
"... fully 65 percent of today’s grade-school kids may end up doing work that hasn’t been invented yet." -Virginia Heffernan
Response:
This is mind-boggling. When reading this, all I can think about is "how?" How are we supposed to prepare them for things that we don't even know about yet? In all honesty, I'm scared of this. This is happening in our lifetime, in our teaching careers. I do agree that the education system is out-dated with how they are preparing students. However, I am nervous that traditional skills will be thrown out of the window and replaced with new unestablished skills. Maybe it is my lack of excitement for change that makes me feel this way, or my fear of the unknown. Living in a time where everything is changing, there is no choice but to adapt.
This video shows the change of classrooms over time and that we have done it once before and we can do it again.
Sources:
Education "The times are a changing". 2009.
Heffernan, Virginia. "Education Needs aDigitial-Age Upgrade." The New York Times: Opinionator (2011).
This is an excellent post! I applaud you for sharing your concern about the rapid changes that are the result of rapid advancements in information and communications technologies! Part of becoming literate in the 21st century is developing a mindset that helps us adapt to change!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the video! I'm going to show it in class today!