Dragging this blog out of the attic and starting it again!
The cobwebs have been blown off because now I'm taking part in the Mind Lab Postgraduate Certificate in Applied Practice - Digital and Collaborative Learning.
We had our first session on Thursday and the main thinking from this week was What is Knowledge and What is the purpose of education?
For me the purpose of education is shifting - we are moving from education being the sharing of collective knowledge to it being about what do you do with the knowledge. Knowledge learning is still an important part but now the emphasis is moving to how can we use that, how can we take it further, what can we do with the knowledge that is different than what we do now?
The purpose of education is to create functional members of society and currently what that is, is changing. Our society is changing rapidly and our roles within society are changing, so how do we educate our students to cope with that? The skill set we leave them with are the tools of their future.
“Our job as teachers and parents is not to prepare students for something; our job is to help students prepare themselves for anything.” AJ Juliani
The cobwebs have been blown off because now I'm taking part in the Mind Lab Postgraduate Certificate in Applied Practice - Digital and Collaborative Learning.
We had our first session on Thursday and the main thinking from this week was What is Knowledge and What is the purpose of education?
For me the purpose of education is shifting - we are moving from education being the sharing of collective knowledge to it being about what do you do with the knowledge. Knowledge learning is still an important part but now the emphasis is moving to how can we use that, how can we take it further, what can we do with the knowledge that is different than what we do now?
The purpose of education is to create functional members of society and currently what that is, is changing. Our society is changing rapidly and our roles within society are changing, so how do we educate our students to cope with that? The skill set we leave them with are the tools of their future.
“Our job as teachers and parents is not to prepare students for something; our job is to help students prepare themselves for anything.” AJ Juliani
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