How Do We Prepare our Children for the Future and at the Same Time Think About the Past?

I just listened to a conversation between Yong Zhao, Professor at Michigan State University, and Julie Duffield of Infinite Thinking Machine at the NCTI Conference website. Yong speaks to the importance of innovation, how technology is defining new talents, and why we all should embrace change.





Yong believes that we need to teach our students:

• ability to design
• to tell stories
• to feel empathetic
• organize to lead
• how to create avatars
  
• navigate Second Life or other virtual worlds
• to put multimedia together
  

Yong expresses the importance that educators understand the "critical" point in education that we are in. ...Give it a listen

:) Diana

Thanks to Lucy Gray's mention of this video on Twitter this a.m. ! :)