Purposeful education
NBC Nightly News recently ran a short piece on students performing assignments where they were asked to engage with a current social issue. Combined with other educational like Project Based Learning (PBL), it is possible that we are seeing a move in the way that people (at least teachers and administrators) view education and curricular effectiveness.I find it curious that we should be surprised that children engage more in their education when we treat them more like adult learners (especially junior high and high school students) where learning opportunities take on more of an immediacy, are embedded in a broader perspective, and can directly lead to practical application.
Rather than go into specific detail here about how education is starting to reflect more of a 21st century model of knowledge and learning, I’ll just pass on the the video below as a means of priming the pump. As you view the clip, keep in mind that these students are engaged in tacit learning exercises where they are focused more on the acquisition, management, and synthesis of information rather than the retention and assessment of it. More on this later.
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