educating for the journey

No one wants advice, only collaboration.
~ John Steinbeck(1902 – 1968)

Well this blog is kind of morphing into a place for sharing ideas that will hopefully guide our WiredWednesday conversations.  It wasn’t the vision and it needs more time, but i just don’t have it right now.  I do want to share this though as it is one of the more powerful things i have seen recently:

Some parts i really found provocative:

• schools exist as a place to send kids while grown ups work
  • a teacher whose students don’t learn will not get fired; but one that allows their students to run around the city would.
• what will be the mark of a good teacher in 2050
• building intellectual alloys
• basic building blocks of Education in the 21st century
• participatory, personalize, post-national
• two million minutes
• writing
  • average writing assignment:  a paragraph to one page and length
• brain research in 2050
• if email is outdated; where does that put books and writing
• choosing which form is more/most appropriate?
  • exactly what Bill and i were promoting with our PBL initiative
• lifelong vs. k-12
• long term problems within a “short-term” game (politics)

“We are all so different largely because we all have different combinations of intelligences. If we recognize this, I think we will have at least a better chance of dealing appropriately with many problems that we face in the world. ”
 ~ Howard Gardner

This video was posted on a friends FaceBook last night and will serve as a wonderful place for us to connect with during our WiredWednesday (or any other time!) discussion.  He posted saying that it was essential viewing for all educators:

Which of Gardners intelligences do you see being more/less important in the next two years?  what about the next 10 or 20?  Does this effect what you do (or should do) in your classroom?  How?