what should be
My conversations with colleagues and parents sometimes get into what computer skills schools should teach students. The conversations are almost always contain this bit of dialogue.
“We need to have Microsoft Office on student computers?”
“Why?”
“Because they’ll need it when they get into the real world.”
Setting aside the fact that we have no idea what the “real [...]
In: General · Tagged with: education debate, education technology, elearning, future
You’ve Lost the Argument
Seth Godin features a post on how to loose an argument. Personal favorites:
Forget the pitfalls of Godwin’s law. Any time you mention Hitler or even Communist China or Bill O’Reilly, you’ve lost.
Bring up the slippery slope. Actually, the slope isn’t that slippery. People don’t end up marrying dogs, becoming cannibals or harvesting organs because of [...]
In: General · Tagged with: education debate, opinion
The Obsessive Permission Culture
I found this embedded on Karl Fischs’ wonderful blog “The Fischbowl” and it pertains to side conversations we’re having in our district.
What’s interesting is that our conversations have focused more on the question of “who owns the content”? That is, who owns, who can copyright, content developed by teachers and used with their students? This [...]
In: General · Tagged with: copyright, education debate, evangelical technology
Brick and Mortar is just Too Expensive
Zephyr Teachout argues that private colleges will drastically shrink in the next 10 years because of the proliferation and ease of online education. He predicts they will follow a similar trajectory of the newspaper business. It is a fascinating read (as are the comments).
As I write this a radio advertisment appears in my pandora tab: [...]
In: General · Tagged with: brick and mortar, education debate, society
What should colleges teach?
Stanly Fish writes and interesting post on What Should Colleges Teach (short answer, “writing courses that teach writing…not everything else”).
In a follow up post, he mentions this quote from his comments section:
“Young people who can’t write can’t think.”
Where I to be teaching students, I would love to present this quote and seek feedback.
(And, speaking personally, [...]
In: General · Tagged with: education debate
