Did You Know

Today was the teachers’ first day back to school. During our meeting they showed us the Did You Know video. It was massively significant. It has huge implications for how we should be teaching our kids to prepare them for the 21st century. What imperatives does this video give you?

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Fire!

We had some excitement here at home this weekend. As I was pulling up the driveway, I saw smoke billowing beside the house. I pulled up to find the fence row on fire. I ran into the house and yelled “The field is on fire!” My father-in-law and I dragged out hoses and started putting out the fire. We started getting it under control, but the fire on the other side of the fence rapidly spread into our neighbor’s field. My mother-in-law called 911.

We put out the fire on our side of the fence while we waited on the fire department. My wife and another neighbor arrived to help. 3 Fire department pickups with hoses and a pumper truck eventually showed up to put out the grass fire on the other side of our fence. My kids even did their part by carrying little buckets of water to help put out some railroad ties that had caught on fire.

It was all caused by a bird landing on top of an electrical transformer and some sparks probably started the fire. The power surge also knocked out our phone and cable, so we are without mass communication with the outside world. I miss not being connected, but the quiet is kind of nice. I also get more done.

We were very lucky that only some fencing materials and railroad ties were damaged in the fire. It is probably an experience we will remember for a long time.

What does this have to do with learning in School 2.0? First of all, it is the experiences that are most personal, out-of-the-ordinary, and most involving that we remember most. For learning to “stick” it needs to be personal, out-of-the-ordinary, and involve the student.

Second, we live in such an information flooded society, with so much stimulus, sometimes we need to turn off some of the input, so we can focus on getting some things done. Multi-tasking is not always a good thing.

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