Let’s stop believing that standardized tests, factual coverage, a focus on discrete skills, traditional multiple choice end of course tests, a teach-test-move on mentality, even AP courses, can prepare most students for this new age we are now living in. This new era, with its qualitatively different dimensions -- information overload, instant search engines, cheap worldwide communication, Netflix, Twitter, and Facebook, rapid technological innovation, job restructuring, uncertainty and change, and new, complex political, economic and social challenges -- requires a very different educational approach. Read on ...
Information for this blog taken from the following website: http://edge.ascd.org/_Teaching-the-Right-Skills-For-a-New-Age-Inquiry-Based-Instruction/blog/5476234/127586.html
Copyright November 2011
