Educational Inspiration

Today I watched Alan November's thoughts on education:

http://www.getideas.org/coge

Skills needed for the future:
1. deal with massive amounts of information well. Critical thinking with massive amounts of information and small pieces of technology.
2. Global Empathy - ability to understand the perspective of other people from other cultures. We need to learn how to work with people around the world - connect their students to authentic audiences around the world.
3. Self-directed - do not need a boss to tell you what to do. Not working alone, perhaps working collaboratively, but don't need the structure of telling you what to do hour by hour.

Create a culture that values new ideas, encourage principals to invest time into setting up such projects - teachers do not have time.

Step 1: Building community - through conferences, in-person meetings, online sharing of videos & resources
Step 2: Support 1 teacher first, build success, and go from there - we aren't going to do everything at once.

I'd like to watch Dave Egger's talk regarding education & schools - that'll have to wait until I get Flash player working, though!