Read Will Richardson's blog about what skills today's students will need in the work force tomorrow. Is he right? Are you getting the training and practice in the skills you will need?
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Todays students need many skills for todays working people. Well first of these days everything is revoling around computers and technology, so you need to know what is going on with computers and the new technology of the future. Kids also need have a better skills in math , everything you need goes with numbers , like your money, food and etc. So kids need to have better math skills. I dont think kids are getting tranied for these skills as much as they need them , after your freshman year , you arent required to take another computer class, so they are really helping us for what we need, math is required for three years, and there are many different levels of math, so make the kids that are ahead in math take more classes then they already have , why not they still need to know other things, but what happens with the kids that arent as good in math as the others , they are at first not going to learn as much because it takes longer to learn the concept of what they are doing. If the the career your going into requires you to have more computer skills why not take them, take classes that you are goig to need to help you on in your chosen carrer
Networked More collaborative More globally aware Less dependent on paper More active More connected Editors of information
These were the topics given in his blog, I will give examples of why we are not being taught such things in our school and why it is so important that what we do away from school is so critical.
Networked - the only real way is to do that online and most of those sites are blocked here.
More collaborate - We don't work in groups very often. The only real class we do is chemistry and English - and that is so rarely. At least with my schedule.
Globally aware - Pft...most kids don't even know what's going on in America little own the world. I don't think history class is going to work.
Less dependent on paper - Mrs. Hansen, you are the only real teacher who is trying to stray away from using paper. The only other one I can think of is Mrs. Brace for relationships and careers. The rest of them are like, "RAWRRR PAPER KILLERS!!" Yep, not exaggerating.
More active - More and mor students are dropping out of sports and becoming more active in other activities in which I am not going to describe; not many kids these days are getting out and doing things. They'd rather get into trouble and cause chaos within their town.
More connected - How I saw this was connecting with new people and new things. Being at school, you can't really learn that and once again most of these helpful sites are blocked.
Editors of information - Not only do students not know how to edit properly, they probably don't even know what the information is saying. I think our generation has lost their will to learn many, many years ago. I would say I lost my passion to learn in about 4th grade. Everything becomes repetitive and teachers seem to lose more enthusiasm as you age.
I think what we learn out of school is FAR more important than what we learn in school. Being wise and "successful" at life to me is learning things on your own rather than being taught; of course school is important and at all costs necissary but what really matters in the end is what you learned on your own and what process you took to figure it out.
Networked–No comment....mainly because I can't think of anything right at this moment....
More collaborative–What? Has the world turned emo? Of course we're going to need to work together to get things done--just as long as we don't go as far as Ayn Rand's "Anthem" and call an individual a "we." Ugh, that bothers me...
More globally aware–3 words: Miss South Carolina. Read this whenever you get the chance:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12591413
Maybe we Americans aren't as smart as we once thought...
Less dependent on paper–I prefer paper of technology. Maybe it's because my head is stuck in the here and now. Screw laptops! Make them carry around notebooks--don't make it easier for them.
More active–Yep. Once again, no further comment.
Fluent in creating and consuming hypertext-Agreed.
More connected–And by connected he doesn't mean by texting.
Editors of information–I don't understand this one either.
No, Mrs. H, we are not getting a sufficient amount of "training and practice in the skills" we will need in the future. Sure we get some, but the world is changing, and as much as I hate to say this, we need to change with it.
Jamie made a good point. And for one, I don't understand school. Students cram information to take a test, one measley test. After that test is over, we retain probably less than 20% of what we did know. How the h**l is this supposed to help us in the future? We shape our future to the way we want it, and forgetting basic skills, like knowing where Louisiana and Mississippi is, is not going to help us be better people.
What would the perfect be teaching and how? What would students be doing to learn the skills they will need for the future? What would I see and hear if I walked into a classroom with a teacher who was trying to allow her students to learn and practice those skills?
Yes I believe that we are getting some contact with these new skills. School forces us to fulfill most of those skills. We can not go one day without being collaborative, networked, connected, or less dependent on paper. As a teenager I can see that our society is being aimed at changing the old ways of life because I'm right in the middle of it, but anyway yes we are getting revealed to all of these so called "new" skills every single day of our lives.
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Todays students need many skills for todays working people. Well first of these days everything is revoling around computers and technology, so you need to know what is going on with computers and the new technology of the future. Kids also need have a better skills in math , everything you need goes with numbers , like your money, food and etc. So kids need to have better math skills. I dont think kids are getting tranied for these skills as much as they need them , after your freshman year , you arent required to take another computer class, so they are really helping us for what we need, math is required for three years, and there are many different levels of math, so make the kids that are ahead in math take more classes then they already have , why not they still need to know other things, but what happens with the kids that arent as good in math as the others , they are at first not going to learn as much because it takes longer to learn the concept of what they are doing.
If the the career your going into requires you to have more computer skills why not take them, take classes that you are goig to need to help you on in your chosen carrer
Networked
More collaborative
More globally aware
Less dependent on paper
More active
More connected
Editors of information
These were the topics given in his blog, I will give examples of why we are not being taught such things in our school and why it is so important that what we do away from school is so critical.
Networked - the only real way is to do that online and most of those sites are blocked here.
More collaborate - We don't work in groups very often. The only real class we do is chemistry and English - and that is so rarely. At least with my schedule.
Globally aware - Pft...most kids don't even know what's going on in America little own the world. I don't think history class is going to work.
Less dependent on paper - Mrs. Hansen, you are the only real teacher who is trying to stray away from using paper. The only other one I can think of is Mrs. Brace for relationships and careers. The rest of them are like, "RAWRRR PAPER KILLERS!!" Yep, not exaggerating.
More active - More and mor students are dropping out of sports and becoming more active in other activities in which I am not going to describe; not many kids these days are getting out and doing things. They'd rather get into trouble and cause chaos within their town.
More connected - How I saw this was connecting with new people and new things. Being at school, you can't really learn that and once again most of these helpful sites are blocked.
Editors of information - Not only do students not know how to edit properly, they probably don't even know what the information is saying. I think our generation has lost their will to learn many, many years ago. I would say I lost my passion to learn in about 4th grade. Everything becomes repetitive and teachers seem to lose more enthusiasm as you age.
I think what we learn out of school is FAR more important than what we learn in school. Being wise and "successful" at life to me is learning things on your own rather than being taught; of course school is important and at all costs necissary but what really matters in the end is what you learned on your own and what process you took to figure it out.
Networked–No comment....mainly because I can't think of anything right at this moment....
More collaborative–What? Has the world turned emo? Of course we're going to need to work together to get things done--just as long as we don't go as far as Ayn Rand's "Anthem" and call an individual a "we." Ugh, that bothers me...
More globally aware–3 words: Miss South Carolina. Read this whenever you get the chance:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12591413
Maybe we Americans aren't as smart as we once thought...
Less dependent on paper–I prefer paper of technology. Maybe it's because my head is stuck in the here and now. Screw laptops! Make them carry around notebooks--don't make it easier for them.
More active–Yep. Once again, no further comment.
Fluent in creating and consuming
hypertext-Agreed.
More connected–And by connected he doesn't mean by texting.
Editors of information–I don't understand this one either.
No, Mrs. H, we are not getting a sufficient amount of "training and practice in the skills" we will need in the future. Sure we get some, but the world is changing, and as much as I hate to say this, we need to change with it.
Jamie made a good point. And for one, I don't understand school. Students cram information to take a test, one measley test. After that test is over, we retain probably less than 20% of what we did know. How the h**l is this supposed to help us in the future? We shape our future to the way we want it, and forgetting basic skills, like knowing where Louisiana and Mississippi is, is not going to help us be better people.
Ahh, screw it.
What would the perfect be teaching and how? What would students be doing to learn the skills they will need for the future? What would I see and hear if I walked into a classroom with a teacher who was trying to allow her students to learn and practice those skills?
Yes I believe that we are getting some contact with these new skills. School forces us to fulfill most of those skills. We can not go one day without being collaborative, networked, connected, or less dependent on paper. As a teenager I can see that our society is being aimed at changing the old ways of life because I'm right in the middle of it, but anyway yes we are getting revealed to all of these so called "new" skills every single day of our lives.
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