Did You Know – Three Point Oh
Remember that Karl Fisch video “Did You Know?” that I posted in March 2007? Well, DeLisa just sent me the 3.0 version, and I think it’s worth a repost, not only because of the snazzy new visual design, but also to note the updates over the past two years.
One of the interesting changes is that, while both videos end with the question of what it all means, only the original goes on to answer the question – “Shift happens.” The newer video discards the lame pun, and leaves it to the viewer to decide what it all means. And so, here’s what it all means to me.
School should be about questions, not about answers. School should be about learning how to think, instead of learning what to think. Students should be working collaboratively on projects. They should be experiencing history, and making it. They should be using technology to break boundaries. And we as teachers should realize how much we have to learn from them.
What does it all mean? It means that to be good teachers, we have to teach students how to be good learners. How well are we doing that?