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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Connected
May 3, 2007
Today my train of thought started with technology transforming schools and ended with Socrates ... made perfect sense to me!
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