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Working from home & deep thinking
Submitted by tstorr on Thu, 15/02/2007 - 11:21am.
Most of this week has been spent doing administration type things so that the project can actually get underway. I can't believe how long it has taken to write consent forms, prepare project information sheets and complete my research plan. At times it has taken far longer than it should just to fit the correct word into a sentence! If I were a pupil at school, I'm sure my teacher would have been giving me a detention for taking my time. I think we hurry our students far too much and reward the fast more than the best. Quality thinking takes time, ideas mature, sometimes they go off, but timely consideration allows us to reflect and gain a deeper understanding. It would be great if schools could develop quality thinking.
Over in the e-fellows private yak-yak space we've been having a discussion about Marc Prensky and his assertion that kids today are different than those from previous generations.
"Our students have changed radically. Today’s students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach."
Maybe the world is a different place, but I'm not so sure that the kids have changed. If our educational system does not start to change though, it could risk becoming irrelevant to those it is trying to help.
Over in the e-fellows private yak-yak space we've been having a discussion about Marc Prensky and his assertion that kids today are different than those from previous generations.
"Our students have changed radically. Today’s students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach."
Maybe the world is a different place, but I'm not so sure that the kids have changed. If our educational system does not start to change though, it could risk becoming irrelevant to those it is trying to help.