“What do you see as the big ‘game changer’ in education?”
The real game changer isn’t something external; it is internal. It is the way we think and grow. It is moving from that “fixed” mindset about teaching and learning, and moving to the “growth” mindset.
Change is the one constant that we will always have in our world and if we do not grow and learn to embrace it, then we will become irrelevant.
points to the growing importance of online citizenship and media-literacy education, in addition to what has come to be seen as online safety education, as solutions to youth risk online."
"points to the growing importance of online citizenship and media-literacy education, in addition to what has come to be seen as online safety education, as solutions to youth risk online.""
he internet is a pedagogic engine, changing and shaping the way we
learn. In this sense, we’ve had more pedagogic change in the last 10 years than
in the last 1000 years – all driven by innovation in technology.
7. Youtube – less is more and ‘knowing how’
YouTube has changed the way we use video in learning for
ever.
8. Games
Games have
brought the proven sophistication of flight simulation into our homes and shown
that failure (abhorred in traditional teaching) is the key to learning.
9. Tools
This is not
often recognised but the word processor, spreadsheet and presentation tools
have effected a considerable change on pedagogy.
10. Open source
Conclusion
These are ground breaking shifts in the way we learn.
Unfortunately, they’re not matched by the way we teach. The growing gap between
teaching practice and learning practice is acute and growing.
""Technology has changed what it means to be a parent raising children today--these children are growing up in an environment that would be unrecognizable to their parents," Smith said. "As our research shows, parents need to start educating kids about navigating the online world safely at an earlier age than they might otherwise have thought.""