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Welcome to the Most Likely to Succeed blog site. I am starting out no frills in terms of what we see, because I want to start with a focus on the book itself. You are all authors, so you can ad any type of content you wish or change/add to the layout as you see fit.
First question for all of you:
What are your preconceptions about what students need to succeed in the innovation era?
First question for all of you:
What are your preconceptions about what students need to succeed in the innovation era?
I think my preconceptions include that students need to be facile with technology. I believe also that students need to be able to create with what they learn. When I first started teaching, synthesis was thought to be high order, but times have changed and students need to move beyond and actually make meaning on their own. Alan November, an education writer, talks a lot about, "Who owns the learning?" That resonates with me a lot. Unless and until a student owns their learning, they will merely work to know enough for the course they are in, and then they will move on from it. How little I remember of my high school geometry course. I did not like it, and I worked really hard to learn enough to pass my tests. Over the intervening years, I have left most of that course behind.
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