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If you send your children to school today, the reality of the education systems inadequacies are glaringly obvious. Schools are boring and demotivating. Students spend more time staring at their phones than listening to their teachers.
Our children are increasingly out of sync with the skills needed to participate in a world made smaller and faster by the undercurrents of technological progress. As it stands, our education system undermines the skills, talents and capacities needed to live in the modern world by limiting the capacities of our students with its out-of-date processes and procedures. The Industrial Age has been over for thirty years. Isn’t it about time our educational systems start to reflect this?
The associated video points out issues I have wrestled with on the subject of complete educational restructuring for the last ten years. It has finally become a consensus there is a problem but there is still a plethora of ideas of what would work best and discussions around whether we make systemic or localized changes to the process depending upon the need.
It is time for a national discussion as the world gets ready for what might be the final century of the Human species. We need to solve a host of problems brought on by previous generations and it is abundantly clear: What got us to this point is insufficient to take us to the next level of development. Collaboration, interaction, respect, analysis, critical thinking, social acceptance of differences, technological mastery, personal and psychological resilience, cultural tolerance, improved communication skills and an environment more like the one students will be working in need to be developed if we are to handle any of the challenges of our future.
One thing, however, is abundantly clear, to me at least, our teachers need more latitude, more resources, pay equivalent to their cultural and social importance in our society, more opportunity for experimentation and and more empowerment to define the process and begin moving away from a model of education which served reasonably well during the Industrial Age, but is proving to no longer be up to the task of dealing with Information Age issues.
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- Have you thought about what needs to change in how we educate ourselves and the possibilities for change in this venerable but increasingly outdated institution?
- What say you, educators across the spectrum of educational institutions? Is it time for a change?
- Have you experimented with alternative modes of education?
- What ideas would YOU implement if you were the Superintendent of your school system (or perhaps the nation)?
- Have they been successful? Tell us about it.
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