Ready or Not

At work someone forward a presentation created by a Mr. Karl Fisch, an educator for Araphahoe High School in Littleton, Co. He maintains an interesting blog, http://thefischbowl.blogspot.com/, the purpose of which is to help "staff development on the topics of constructivism and the use of technology to foster student-centered classrooms." The presentation forwarded around my work was titled "Did You Know", http://www.lps.k12.co.us/schools/arapahoe/fisch/fischbowlpresentations.htm, and focused on the global environment our children are growing up in and the future they are being educated to participate in. I found his three presentations extremely thought provoking at many levels. As an parent, a US citizen, an employee and most importantly as a Christian.

"We are currently preparing students for jobs that don't exist yet...

using technologies that haven't been invented yet...

in order to solve problems we don't even know are problems yet."

I also find it very troublesome when I hear educators I am friends with talk about the environments they are currently work in within the public school arena. So many children, it seems, don't stand a chance in the fast changing, technology centered, knowledge oriented, lifetime of learning, global economy they will be participants in whether they are ready or not.