On educating our kids
Some interesting articles related to education came up this week on Twitter. Do give them a read.
From Smithsonian and via @KimElmose on Twitter
Why Are Finland’s Schools Successful?
The country’s achievements in education have other nations doing their homework
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/Why-Are-Finlands-Schools-Successful.html
From the Guardian and via @euan on Twitter:
Kids today need a licence to tinker
Forget the old approach of the national curriculum, we need to open young minds to the creative possibilities of computing
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/aug/28/ict-changes-needed-national-curriculum
UPDATE 5 September 2011
After posting the first two links, I came across two other links that are too important to ignore if we’re talking about kids and education.
The 7-Lesson Schoolteacher
by John Taylor Gatto, New Society Publishers, 1992. Shared by @twomasc on Twitter.
http://www.newciv.org/whole/schoolteacher.txt
Back to the (wrong) school
Then this post by Seth Godin popped up on Twitter thanks to @uxprinciples.
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2011/09/back-to-the-wrong-school.html
I feel it echoes much of what Gatto wrote nearly 20 years ago. I shared the Gatto article with a colleague today. He was ecstatic - thought the writing was spot on.
