I'm loving this one! I read three articles: #3 9 Essential Skills Kids Should Learn, #7 Three Ideas for 21st-Century Global Curriculum, and #24 Bloom's Digital Taxonomy. They all looked at essentially the same issue from different angels: adaptive learning in our perpetually changing world. Number 3, our 9 Essentials, wants to throw all tradition out the window, called it "unschooling." I commend the efforts towards self learning and problem solving but as an educator I don't quite agree that all is broken. Number 7 gives us three great ideas: Adapt to Learners, Rethink Learning Spaces, and Leverage the Role of Play. Awesome! Our ever evolving technological world insists we become more adaptable to be successful educators, learning spaces can make or break a classroom, and play is a key component in retention and self motivation. This article also gives handy little strategies for each idea. The last one, number 24, took the old and helps bring it up to date. This is a wonderful approach to incorporating new thinking into traditional design. The breakdown of lower order and higher order thinking are still relevant, thinking and collaborating will never be obsolete even with the ever rapidly changing technological world. All three articles address the need for adaptive learning and creative thinking, but number 7 spoke to me the most. Specifically play! It ain't good learnin' if it ain't fun.
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