It was so refreshing to watch a positive education story in the media last night.
As adults we remember our own schooling, we know it was successful for us, and we can't understand why the system of schooling needs to change so radically. The reality is that education WAS successful for us… to prepare us for life in the 70s, 80s and 90s… but children today are leaving school to enter a very different workforce and society to the one we left school to join. Our relationship to knowledge and the way we access it has fundamentally changed with the advent of the world wide web and the introduction of mobile devices… and schools need to change with it.
Last night's documentary demonstrated the changes in education, outlining the shift away from replicating knowledge and ideas, towards thinking creatively and innovatively. It showed us how new ways of teaching and learning are not only engaging and motivating students, but are enabling learners to gain much deeper understandings of curriculum content, than if they had rote learnt vast quantities of factual knowledge.
If you didn't get a chance to see the documentary, you can watch it on demand here:
It's well worth 45 minutes of your life!
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