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Laura Shaw

Education Needs a Digital-Age Upgrade - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • According to Cathy N. Davidson, co-director of the annual MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competitions, fully 65 percent of today’s grade-school kids may end up doing work that hasn’t been invented yet.
  • better question is whether the form of learning and knowledge-making we are instilling in our children is useful to their future.”
  • What she recommends, in fact, looks much more like a classical education than it does the industrial-era holdover system that still informs our unrenovated classrooms.
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  • we can’t keep preparing students for a world that doesn’t exist.
  • The contemporary American classroom, with its grades and deference to the clock, is an inheritance from the late 19th century.
  • The industrial-era classroom, as a training ground for future factory workers, was retooled to teach tasks, obedience, hierarchy and schedules.
  • Ms. Davidson cites the elite Socratic system of questions and answers, the agrarian method of problem-solving and the apprenticeship program of imitating a master.
  • It’s possible that any of these educational approaches would be more appropriate to the digital era than the one we have now.
  • Her recommendations center on one of the most astounding revelations of the digital age:
  • Even academically reticent students publish work prolifically, subject it to critique and improve it on the Internet.
  • A classroom suited to today’s students should deemphasize solitary piecework. It should facilitate the kind of collaboration that helps individuals compensate for their blindnesses, instead of cultivating them
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