"If we teach today, as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow" -John Dewey
John Dewey's words of a hundred years ago ring truer that ever today.
What are we doing to advance our children to prepare for their future?
Are you looking for a particular app and when you find it, do you wonder if it is any good or not? Common Sense Media has a webpage on its website that reviews websites, apps, as well as movies and books appropriate for various ages. Check it out!
Sugata Mitra asserts in this short 2:41 minute video that "groups of children can teach themselves almost anything."
What does that mean to us as teachers? As Dr. Mitra says "the internet is full of answers but not of questions." We have to ask the questions, set the stage, and allow children to use resources at their disposal to learn.
The internet is content rich but some of the content is worthless. We have to teach our children to be discerning readers and researchers.
Discerned from Sugata Mitra's video, Eric Patnoudes posted in his recent blogpostfour skills
"modern students of the digital age need to learn:
First, they should be adept at finding information quickly and easily on the internet.
Next, he says they have to comprehend what they are reading.
Third, students will have to organize the information they have discovered in a manner that makes sense.
Finally, decide which information they will use to make a decision, solve a problem, or accomplish a task.
Mitra goes on to state that with these skills, there is no job or career that a students we educate today, will not be prepared for in their future."
