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September 27, 2010

Why do schools use 2-D teaching in a 3-D world?

Peter Halacsy:

American schools are using two-dimensional communication in a 3-D world. All one needs to do is view the YouTube video of a toddler quickly mastering an iPad to understand the problem, and the solution.

American education is linear, but the rest of a student's world isn't. Watch young people hunting knowledge at a computer, and you won't see them moving along a straight line (as textbooks or slide presentations do). You'll see them zooming in and out, leaping from hyperlink to hyperlink, remixing knowledge on the fly. This type of learning is brain candy to young people, and they don't get enough in school. As one T-shirt recently seen in a New York City school says, "It's Not ADD - I'm Just Not Listening."

Posted by jimz at September 27, 2010 3:42 AM
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