I just read Beyond Technology and it really reinforced to me the importance of changing how our education system operates. The article says that in the future, preexisting jobs, where tasks are laid out for you and you have a boss looking over your shoulder won't exist, at least in the numbers they do now. Employment will rather be self created, self directed and self marketed.
To me, this says that in order to teach our students to do well in the future job market, we need to teach our students to operate independently, without direction. Not exactly the current environment of our public schools. Students need more than instructions, they need experience, and our schools and teachers need to give them that experience.
In Minnesota, the New County School has implemented an innovative new approach to education. They have no classes, no teachers and no walls. The students are self directed, and set their own curriculum, and there are advisers on hand to help out when needed. The students can get up and interact with the other students whenever they wish to bounce ideas off of each other, collaborate, or just take a break from school work.
I hear from a lot of my peers that self motivation and direction is difficult for them, and it is for me too. I wonder if that is because we are not practiced at it?
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