------------Becoming smarter about new sources of information. In an age of overflowing information and proliferating media, kids need to rapidly process what's coming at them and distinguish between what's reliable and what isn't. "It's important that students know how to manage it, interpret it, validate it, and how to act on it," says Dell executive Karen Bruett, who serves on the board of the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, a group of corporate and education leaders focused on upgrading American education.
Developing good people skills. EQ, or emotional intelligence, is as important as IQ for success in today's workplace. "Most innovations today involve large teams of people," says former Lockheed Martin CEO Norman Augustine. "We have to emphasize communication skills, the ability to work in teams and with people from different cultures."----------
Above is what found to be the most important topic in the article. Similiar to vocational learning in schools all students can not be lawyers, engineers, and doctors and must learn other skills. It is the responsibility of teachers to cement these ideas into the minds of students. A complete person, one with a little bit of everything mentioned above - not just one with a high IQ or exceptional athletic prowess - can be successful in the current society.
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The article snippet has some holes in its theories and good intentions. From Piaget's theory, most kids aren't going to be able to find the logical or abstract meaning of information they are bombarded with until middle school or older. From a society's point of view, everyone has a part in what a child sees and understands. It starts with the parents, branching out to other relatives, focusing on friends, and continuing down to teachers.
ReplyDeleteBecause not all kids process the same thing at the same time, this idea that kids have to understand everything NOW is false and overstated. Also, because not everything a child understands deals with technology, this techo hype is pushing the limits on saying that technology is the best (and only) way that a child can learn. There are dozens, hundreds, of ways that kids can learn and technology simply happens to be one of them.