I definitely agree that the focus in schools needs to be less about making sure every kid knows the same facts and equations at the same time and more about finding way to teach students practical skills in relevant ways. Interdisciplinary teaching will better prepare students for a world in which the pathways to success are becoming more and more reliant on ingenuity, collaboration and creativity.
The importance of revealing to kids how to thoughtfully make use of the many new technologies available to them is another skill that simply cannot be looked over any more. We exist in a global economy now a American students of the 21st century certainly need to be more aware of their little piece of the big picture in this world in a much more immediate way than their parents ever had to consider back in grade school.
With all the new technological breakthroughs happening constantly and being made publicly available almost instantaneously, students need to be aware of how they use these and what troubles might arise from them. We must start showing students that not only are new devices and websites cool and fun, they can also be informative, dangerous, bogus, illegal, and so many other things. We need to adjust our ideas about what school is and start working towards what has really always been an essential goal in education: to prepare our children to be successful in the world once they grow up.
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