Mod 3: Continuing Blogging

I watched the You Tube video Educational Change Challenge by Darren Cannell, where the author is discussing how our educational system has been essentially structured the same way since the Industrial Revolution. And that this system no longer works because it no longer reflects the world we are living in. Cannell used the picture to the right to represent this disconnect between schools and the world outside.

One problem that Cannell cites is how we structure the classroom: 1 teacher; many students; all the students must learn at the same rate. He quotes George Evans in saying, "Every student can learn. Just not in the same day or in the same way." Throughout his 2 minute video Cannell quotes many other people.

The other main problem that Cannell addresses is that our schools do not have a clear vision of what school is for. And he states that "teachers need to exist in the space the students exist, understand their culture; you have no credibility if you are not where they are." He addresses exactly what our class, as shown in the syllubus, is designed to address, students are living in a digital world, and we need to bring that world into the classroom in order to stay relevant and innovative.

He ends his post asking, "Am I creating life long learners? And am I preparing them for my age or theirs?"