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If kids can access information from sources other than school, and if school is no longer the only place where information lives, what, then happens to the
happens to the role of this institution?“
Our whole reason for showing up for school has changed, but infrastructure has stayed behind,” said Diana Laufenberg, who taught history at the progressive public school Science Leadership Academy for many years.
Laufenberg provided some insight into how she guided students to find their own learning paths at school, and enumerated some of these ideas at SXSWEdu last week.
“If by the end of the year, they still need me, I haven’t done my job,” she said. “I’m not coming with them to college. They have to be self-driven, independent thinkers.”
See also this quote:
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.
Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) American author, editor and printer.
Check also:
- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Education+3.0
- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Prepare+Students+For+21st+Century+Surviv