Musings

Why is education "dangerously irrelevant"????  This is worrisome to someone who spent 38 years serving in public education.  There is such an urgency to change and such a resistance to it on our part.  Tom Friedman had a great column in NY Times yesterday.  He speaks of the revolution that has occurred in the rest or the world who want so desperately what we have while "...the U.S. seems sadly unprepared to take advantage of the revolution it has spawned. The country’s worn-out infrastructure, failing education system and lack of political consensus have prevented it from riding a new wave to prosperity.”   Ouch.   (October 31, 2010, New York Times).
This is a new blog for me and I hope to provoke some conversation and thinking about how we can help advance 21st century teaching, learning and thinking.  The video below gives us something to think about:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U