[Codo]

We all like to stay in our own world as much as possible.

So I understand, why we like puplis to learn how to calculate in their brain, how to spell "prediction" in three different languages. This is what had been taught to us, so we belive this must be right.

But is it?

In the stone age you learned how to make fire, how to fight and how to survive in general.
In the middle age, you learned how to pray and how to work as a farmer.
Some 100 years ago, you learned about sciences and how to serve your country.
Nowadays, you still learn a lot of facts you can memorize.

Maybe in 50 years, you will at last learn how to learn and how to use the tools like smartphones etc. in a sensible way.

What I try to say is: What we belive to be the right education had changed during the last 25.000 years- sometimes slower, sometimes quicker. Surely it will and should change quite quick in the near future to make the best out of the new opportunities.

[onoway]

Codo, on 2013-August-28, 02:18, said:

We all like to stay in our own world as much as possible.

So I understand, why we like puplis to learn how to calculate in their brain, how to spell "prediction" in three different languages. This is what had been taught to us, so we belive this must be right.

But is it?

In the stone age you learned how to make fire, how to fight and how to survive in general.
In the middle age, you learned how to pray and how to work as a farmer.
Some 100 years ago, you learned about sciences and how to serve your country.
Nowadays, you still learn a lot of facts you can memorize.

Maybe in 50 years, you will at last learn how to learn and how to use the tools like smartphones etc. in a sensible way.

What I try to say is: What we belive to be the right education had changed during the last 25.000 years- sometimes slower, sometimes quicker. Surely it will and should change quite quick in the near future to make the best out of the new opportunities.

Agree in principle but now if only we could all agree on what those changes should be. It was a lot simpler when it was possible to know what challenges you were likely to have to face.

We've changed the world so much we don't even know what we need to know.

We don't really have water that's truly fit to drink anymore, the air in many cities is unfit to breathe, and governments approve of a degree of known poisons to be embedded in our food. Perhaps we could start there....

[y66]

Online Lessons in Dementia Management

For caregivers and forum posters seeking to develop more supportive environments for their demented loved ones so they can use the capabilities they still have.

[kenberg]

y66, on 2013-September-06, 05:47, said:

Online Lessons in Dementia Management

For caregivers and forum posters seeking to develop more supportive environments for their demented loved ones so they can use the capabilities they still have.

This could be of direct interest to a friend. In such serious matters there is always some judgment needed about how much to suggest and how much to mind one's own business except when asked, but this could be useful. Maybe I can get it into play.