One of the recurring issues that came up throughout the day yesterday (at Conovocation 2008) was the issue of FEAR. Fear of loss of control, fear of the tools, fear of change, fear of the “unknown”…
I thought the following two comments that came through on the online chat were extremely powerful counter-arguments to the common expressions of those kinds of fear listed above:
09:16 dlaufenberg : the real fear should be educating a generation of students that are not prepared to move the nation forward
09:16 dlaufenberg : the real fear should be that the ‘culture of one right answer’ will not be able to creatively solve the complicated problems that face ‘our’ future
Our current education system is not preparing kids for their futures and that is what should really make us afraid. We should be afraid that we are failing an entire generation of people who will need new skills and knowledge (skills and knowledge that we are not yet teaching them in our schools) if we hope to move our nation forward and to solve the many problems that we will continue to face in the 21st Century.
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