Why we need to change the way we teach This post by David Warlick gets to some of the reasons we're having our conference and why we need start thinking differently about the students we'll be teaching in the future. One of my mantras is recapitulated:

The answers to today’s questions will not be their answers tomorrow. Science, health, culture, politics, economics, and even history are all changing. In a rapidly changing world, it becomes much less valuable to be able to memorize the answer, and much more valuable to be able to find and even invent the answers.

This is true of learning new technology as well. Information and technology changes so quickly, there's no way any one person can know all the answers. What we must encourage our students (and ourselves) to do is to learn to find the answers. That means learning how to use search tools and how to evaluate the sources you find. It means learning to tap into communities who have their finger on the pulse of whatever field or topic you're interested in.

Read the whole post and the comments. This is what's coming, folks. ¶ 9:40 AM, posted by Laura