“ I'm encouraging kids to use computers at their own pace to build aspirations. ”
Let children wander aimlessly around ideas.
~ Sugata Mitra
Teachers are not supposed to be repositories of information which they dish out. That is from an age when there were no other repositories of information, other than books or teachers, neither of which were portable. A lot of my big task is retraining these teachers.
Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core.
In most schools, we measure children on what they know. By and large, they have to memorize the content of whatever test is coming up. Because measuring the results of rote learning is easy, rote prevails. What kids know is just not important in comparison with whether they can think.
