I spend a lot of time thinking of how education needs to change–to modernize. This article in the Globe and Mail regarding schools in Afghanistan reminds me of how fortunate I am to be able to think about these things.
School enrollment in Afghanistan is up despite attacks on students and teachers by the Taliban.
Today I read Karl Fishch’s post The Invention of Air, PLNs, and School Transformation. In it he says, “I believe one of the big hurdles for getting folks in my building to blog professionally is their fear of not having a polished piece of writing, or of being not completely correct about something.” His post resonated with me because that’s how I feel.
It’s not a fear as such, it’s more of an expectation on my part. My education drilled into me that what I write needs to be well thought out, accurate, and complete. I like blogs to be the same. Karl challenges my thinking by pointing out that science is not that way and has never been that way. It’s worth a read.
This article leaves me with many questions but it quotes a study which suggests that students that watched a podcast of a lecture scored better than students that actually attended the lecture. It’s worth a read.
