pathways | an educator's notebook

Thanks to Will Richardson for this post:
 

[...] I’ve been giving a great deal of thought to what my own children are going to need to be able to do when they get to where they have to support my wife and I in our old age [...]. They are not being empowered to learn, not being helped to become:

• Self-learners who are able to navigate the 10 or 15 or however many job changes people are predicting for them by the time they are 30;

• Self-selectors who must find and evaluate and finally choose their own teachers and collaborators as they build their own networks of learners;

• Self-editors who can look at a piece of information and assess it on a variety of levels, not simply believe it because someone else does;

• Self-organizers who can manage the slew of information coming at them by developing their own structures and strategies for making sense of it all;

• Self-reflectors who are not solely dependent on external evaluation to drive their decision making and their evolution as learners and people;

• Self-publishers who understand the power and importance of sharing and connecting information and knowledge and can do it effectively and ethically;

• Self-protectors who understand where the online dangers lie, can recognize them, and can act appropriately to stay away from harm.

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