Who knew fingertip knowledge could be such a great tool in our education. The idea that two men could create such a great charter school all based on inquiry and creativity is amazing. This idea of keeping the kids interested by exploring personal interests and having large audiences for their products is genius. This knowledge can be used to connect to anyone in the world and create endless oppurtunities.
One question I had earlier was how to use the information we find in the best possible way. There is so much information out there. How do we find what we need in small yet understandable chunks. Google helps us search and find knowledge. As the book says "the world is now Google-ized." There is everything from book searchs, maps, images and blogs that is powered by Google. Google wants to organize all the world's informatin. Can you imagine? How is this helpling education? Learning is no longer how much knowledge we have but how we can access it. With information constantly changing we can't expect our kids to memorize information that will be obsolete in 3 years. This is very interesting and exciting to comprehend. How will we move from traditional teaching to web-based learning and teach our children to research, think for themselves and how to take all this knowledge they find on the web and use it in their studies and everyday lives.
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Don't you love it when you're intrigued by one idea and that leads to more and more questions?
ReplyDeleteHow do you use and filter the massive amount of information at your fingertips? Has it really always been there, but is now just in a single place? I mean, we've had libraries and encyclopedias for quite some time...haven't we always had to figure out how to digest the information available without making ourselves sick? Or is this flood of available information different?
I believe this is different because the information comes at a faster pace. Researching on the computer gives you a broader amount of information and you have to learn to filter the information down to what you specificly need. This is something that would have to be taught. The more information available the smaller the filter would have to be. When I used to research from books, I would get so frustrated because it took so long, but when computers came along I thought this was great until I had to do research. I found that you had to be very specific in the subject area that you wanted to know about otherwise you could get lost in all the information available.
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