Content vs. Skills vs. 'The System'
May 28, 2009
The deeper I get into this project of writing a guide for creating theme-based schools, the more I realize how stuck we are in a system that just doesn't work anymore. The popular debate right now is about the relative value of teaching traditional content versus teaching 21st century skills. My thoughts on that are summed up in the last sentence of the first paragraph.
(I wrote this back in March, but my site was down. Fortunately, things don't change that quickly in education :/ Anyway, I'm still working on the same damned guide, and given the pace of educational change, it should be quite evident that nothing else mentioned here has changed other than the time frame of articles described as 'recent'. )
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Critical Thinking vs. Fact-based Learning
May 7, 2009
Is there really any question of which is more important? Traditional curriculum emphasizes factual knowledge. Games promote critical thinking. So we need to find a way to make games work in the classroom??? Am I crazy to think that the statement "... schools do have to change in some fairly fundamental ways" is a bit of an understatement?
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