This was an interesting TED talk that I listened to recently, about a fabulous man from India name
Sugata Mitra.
All I'm going to say (without giving the whole TED talk away) is how unbelievably different teaching has really become....
Different you say? Not really you think?
BULLOCKS!
I have seen students correct the teacher in class DURING a lecture with information that they googled from their phones or computers...knowledge is at everyone's finger tips and that's not something that going to change in the near future.
Then why come go to school if you already know what's in the teacher's head?
Teacher's can still teach students how to use and find the specific skills they need in order to better understand the knowledge. Without the right skills students would be lost in knowing how to apply the their knowledge.
So yes, I believe we still do have something useful to teach students but MAN oh MAN!
This might mean re-writing the whole teacher's college program in some cases...
Errrr, maybe someone should get on that?
Still need chewing on this idea.
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