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 David Warlick Kool-Aid Here's the reaction of one workshop participant: "WOW!!! This man is an expert in his field. At the workshops I have attended this week he presented lots of challenging ideas that can help to improve all of the RAW (Reading, Arithmetic, & Writing) Skills. If teachers can incorporate blogging and enhance literacy, kids will become much more prepared for the 21st century. We have to prepare them with knowledge and literacy, not just technology—some of them can even teach us a few things as our learning never ends either. Today’s students are comfortable with IMing, websurfing, and blogging. Thus, in order to compete for their attention, we as educators have to support their creativity, challenge their critical thinking and encourage them to become communicators and investigators. In the not-so-distant future, they will no longer be handed a textbook that is assumed to be truth, but they will exercise their communication/literacy skills by exploring and proving the validity and authenticity of the digital information that they read." David alluded to The World is Flat (Friedman). Here is the link to Friedman's one-hour video lecture at MIT.  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. |
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