I hope you don't mind, but I am reading the book quickly. Pink's findings are fascinating. I especially like the idea of changes for the SAT. I agree with Pink in that much standardized testing is based on the old standards of our "knoweldge" society. It would be great to have an alternative to the SAT. I have often thought that jobs of the future would be in the arts. Looking around, where do we excell as a nation - the entertainment industry. Now, I don't believe everyone should be an actress or actor, but the entertainment field is burgeoning.
I like the idea of changing our social studies curriculum to focus more on a design aspect of society like CHAD did by integrating it with the history or culture that is being studied. We study communities in third grade. I can picture my third graders coming into my classroom on the first day of school, desks organized in the middle of the classroom and the students designing the physical structure of their learning environment. Do you think that might be too radical?
Since we study communities in third grade, it would be a great design project for us to design our own community. Students would take into consideration environmental aspects, demographic aspects, - what things need to be in place for the oldest part of the population and the youngest, etc. City planners could be brought in to talk to the students about urban planning. Dr. Dugan was on the right track when she proposed the outcome project for third grade social studies - to create an imaginary community. I think we need to reconsider what we are doing in social studies, but it is in that curriculum where I could see instituting some of these ideas.
Friday, June 29, 2007
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