Post by healthy11 on Jul 1, 2015 19:59:48 GMT -5
www.huffingtonpost.com/daniel-burrus/are-we-educating-students_b_7706888.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592&ref=yfp
Although the above article doesn't specifically talk about children with learning disability issues, it points out what many of us have already discussed, which is that educators favor the familiar ways they've been instructing for years, and look more in the "rearview mirror" than forward, as far as topics they teach. That approach is likely to end up putting most U.S. children at a disadvantage, in a world that's more and more technically interconnected.
Although the above article doesn't specifically talk about children with learning disability issues, it points out what many of us have already discussed, which is that educators favor the familiar ways they've been instructing for years, and look more in the "rearview mirror" than forward, as far as topics they teach. That approach is likely to end up putting most U.S. children at a disadvantage, in a world that's more and more technically interconnected.