http://hikersean.edublogs.org What does it mean to teach in the digital age? Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:19:13 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 http://hikersean.edublogs.org/2007/11/06/content-versus-skill/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Sylvie Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:19:13 +0000 http://hikersean.edublogs.org/2007/11/06/content-versus-skill/#comment-3 I completely agree…Your thoughts bring me back to the “Teach a man to fish” theory. To prepare our students for the myriad possible educational, professional, and personal paths they may find themselves on in their future lives, we must pass on to them not a pile of fish, nor, to stretch the metaphor even further, a single fishing pole. We must teach them how to be fishermen: how to find out what kind of fish they want, where they can find it, how to select the best tools and techniques with which to catch it, and even how to safely prepare it. Hmm…a language arts teacher run amuck, I’m afraid…but you follow the basic idea. <a href="http://mscofino.edublogs.org/2007/10/04/essential-understandings-for-21st-century-literacy/" rel="nofollow"> Kim Cofino</a> has an excellent and more thorough discussion of just what kind of understandings we need of the skills our students need for the 21st century. I completely agree…Your thoughts bring me back to the “Teach a man to fish” theory. To prepare our students for the myriad possible educational, professional, and personal paths they may find themselves on in their future lives, we must pass on to them not a pile of fish, nor, to stretch the metaphor even further, a single fishing pole. We must teach them how to be fishermen: how to find out what kind of fish they want, where they can find it, how to select the best tools and techniques with which to catch it, and even how to safely prepare it. Hmm…a language arts teacher run amuck, I’m afraid…but you follow the basic idea.
Kim Cofino has an excellent and more thorough discussion of just what kind of understandings we need of the skills our students need for the 21st century.

]]> http://hikersean.edublogs.org/2007/10/22/here-we-go/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Rick Biche Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:40:29 +0000 http://hikersean.edublogs.org/2007/10/22/here-we-go/#comment-2 So the question is, What skills do you think are most important in a 21st century science curriculum? So the question is, What skills do you think are most important in a 21st century science curriculum?

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