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• 27 Sep 09
  

  John Faig

  blog best

• 18 May 09
  

  Patricia Chin

  education blog

• 17 May 09
  

  AJ Tivol

  Response to an email
  Posted by: pmacoun in Technology Musings, tags: 21stcenturyskills
  
  I recently received an email response from someone kind enough to read my most recent blog posts. The response was honest and thoughtful and I couldn’t get it out of my head. I responded by email and was given permission to post my response here. The quotes are the original email remarks.
  
  I am a little more skeptical though. Over the past 2000 years, ‘classical education’ (is there such a thing?) has delivered the greatest minds known to us; the scientists, the poets, the musicians, the architects, engineers, linguists and, above all, the philosophers.
  
  I`m not convinced that the Industrial model of education that we have today IS the type of education that has existed over the past 2000 years. It has been argued that our current system emerged as a way to mass educate students to participate in an industrial society. Before that education consisted of more of an apprenticeship model. This learning happened in a social context that gave the content real world relevance. I`m not an expert on what it was like to be an apprentice but I would guess that it involved a lot of conversation and working through problems with other people you trust and respect. I think that the power of these new internet tools and Personal Learning Networks is that they can allow us and our students to go out and find mentors andpeople we trust and learn with and from them. Sort of like a high tech apprenticeship-mentoring model.
  
  Your comment makes me think of Einstein, who we hold up as one of the greatest minds of our time. He did not do well in our `Classical`schooling system and for most of his professional career worked through his ideas and thoughts in letters to colleagues. Think what he could have accomplished if he had had a blog :)
  
  I fear is that we lack the rigour that produced the great Renaissance men; that technology is raising very clever young people, but also ones that lack the discipline, work ethic and insight

  innovation education 21stCentury

• 15 May 09
  

  Phil Taylor

  learning plan pd 21century education

  • Your comment makes me think of Einstein, who we hold up as one of the greatest minds of our time.  He did not do well in our `Classical`schooling system and for most of his professional career worked through his ideas and thoughts in letters to colleagues. 
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  John Evans

  conferences professionallearning PLN

• 14 May 09
  

  Yu-Hui Ching

  make conferences more practical, not just hands on training with new tools, but a focus on the actual creation of something that bridges new learning with what you already know, and asks you to create something useful.

  professional development

• 17 Apr 09
  

  mary little-finnegan
  • In my view, in the twenty-first century we need the following—and we need them fast and all at once together: embodied empathy for complex systems; “grit” (passion + persistence); playfulness that leads to innovation; design thinking; collaborations in which groups are smarter than the smartest person in the group; and real understanding that leads to problem solving and not just test passing.  These are, to my mind, the true twenty-first century skills.
• 10 Feb 09
  

  Jill Boulanger

  educators

• 26 Nov 08
  

  Betty Gilgoff

  Phil Macoun's blog

  blog_example

• 27 Oct 08
  

  Vicki Davis

  Excellent reflections on some of the most poingnant issues we've had on Digiteen this year. I agree with Phil totally!

  education digiteen high_school digital_responsibilities netiquette

  • I think it is that there is a lot of value in allowing students to make mistakes in an environment like the Ning where they can make mistakes and learn from them. I was nervous about the Ning component of this project because of the potential for my students to make mistakes on a public site, but if they are never given a chance to really fully participate in real world experiences then how are they ever going to learn how to navigate these experiences successfully.
  • This short story has really reinforced for me the power of these global collaborative projects, and it’s not over yet. I wonder what other teachable moments and wonderful connections will happen next?

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