Serendipity35

This is just a pointer to a piece by Peter Pappas from his Copy/Paste blog. I suppose I could have just tweeted the link, but I'm not sure that is enough.

I came across it while searching for some totally unrelated open source materials. The title question caught my attention.

Here is a teaser to hopefully make you want to read more:

What happens in schools when life has become an open-book test?

The legacy mass media aren't the only ones struggling to adjust to the transformation of information. Today, students feel in charge of information - their landscape is explored with an expectation of choice, functionality and control that redefines our traditional notions of learning and literacy. Unlike newspapers, schools aren't quite yet an endangered species - at least until someone figures who will watch the kids all day. But schools run a greater risk of becoming irrelevant to students.

It's time to redefine to the information flow in schools. Educators must realize that they cannot simply dispense information to students. They will lose the battle of competition for student attention span. Instead they must teach students how to effectively use the information that fills their lives - how to better access it, critically evaluate it, store it, analyze and share it.

Students are adrift in a sea of text without context...