One of the themes I will develop on this blog can best be described as "rethinking education." We know the world is changing (the content we teach, the populations we teach, the culture for which we prepare youngsters...). We know from a range of education observers that schooling as we know it is based on old ideas and that increasingly these ideas are leading to school experiences that are irrelevant. This is all contributing to public discourse on how we can overcome our institutional inertia.
I believe educators have been silent in this discussion for far to long, so this will be my forum for pointing the NELMS community to resources to help each member be a strong voice for what we know 21st education should look like. After all, middle schoolers have a long experience with the practices others are now advocating!
Ken Robinson is well-known for his comments on creativity and educational practices that promote creativity (especially his TED Talk on how schools kill creativity). A student recently pointed me to a more recent talk he has given on the obsolete educational paradigm. This version has an interesting visual representation also:
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