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| As educators we should be continually doing all these things in order to continually strive for quality education and to make children motivated to learn, or to give them 'drive' |
The first notation to make was on the first page when the differences between education and industry were highlighted:
1. schools are not factories
2. students are not the products
3. education is the product
4. there are several consumers: students, parents, future employers, society
5 students need to be co-managers of their education
6. there are no opportunities for recalls
I particularly liked in point 4 that future eomploers and society are consumers. This highlights the lifelong learning aspect of education, which is an integral part of Information Literacy.
I also liked the point that it takes quality learning experiences to create an independent learner. This ties in with children being co-managers of their education.
A few weeks ago I attended a Tony Ryan conference. He was taking about technology in education. The point made in this article on page 8 seemed to marry with what was said at teh conference. Features of a school might be all the technology etc in the school, but that doesn't make quality education. The quality comes from the way technology etc is used and the foundations for lifelong learning being laid. I disagreed with the point made that quality education can occur in a 1 room schoolhouse with few amenities. This may have been the case in the past, but in this era technology is essential - everything revolves around the use of technology and using it to access information is more imnportant than the knowing.
There were four categories of expectations in education:
1. knowledge
2. know-how
3. wisdom
4. character
I feel that as a future TL the know-how and wisdom are SO important. Students need to learn how to locate information and evaluate it rather than learn copious amount of information that may be irrelevant in a few years time.
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