tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198029050113881808.post7485808686473354352..comments2010-07-10T09:27:50.154-05:00Stephen G. Barkleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07001887356645489504noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198029050113881808.post-85375467992053331332009-05-04T10:38:00.000-05:002009-05-04T10:38:00.000-05:00Paul<br /><br />Go to you tube and search for Not on the Test by Tom Chapin.... lots of reinforcement for your thinking.<br />steveStephen G. Barkleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07001887356645489504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198029050113881808.post-18796121251799638492009-05-04T07:45:00.000-05:002009-05-04T07:45:00.000-05:00From my experience it seems that the limiting of social skills is a direct consequence of the overemphasis on tested knowledge and the skills to show them. <br /><br /> It has been interesting in graduate classes to reckon with the idea that our students will deal with a completely different world as adults. The ability to find information will be preferable over an ability to retain it, theorists are now saying, due to the exponential growth of information and its availability at the click of a mouse. With that in mind, logic would say we are certainly barking up the wrong tree. <br /><br /> Perhaps we should be challenging students to search for information on a variety of topics that interest them, to learn how to share the resources with others, and to spur one another toward greatness in their abilities to use foundational skills in new and diverse ways. <br /><br /> Tomorrow's success for today's students will not be in what they can amass in their knowledge banks but in how they can USE their knowledge (and, even more, the knowledge of others) in a world of diversity, according to the research that you have stated together with what I have seen.<br /><br />Paul MoranvillePaul Moranvillenoreply@blogger.com