The blog that I chose to write about from Karl Fishbowl’s post was his December one about “What IT Wants.” In this post Karl talks about the panel discussion at Regis University that he got to participate in where He and other people like Dean Tucker got to speak at. I found the comments that dean tucker made very interesting. One of them said that you can not make the people drink the water, but you can tell them the importance of drinking the water. I find that this saying implies to schooling to if you tell your students how important something is and show how it is important to their lives they will find the information more interesting. I know from being in class as a child that the most information I retained was from teachers that showed the information’s important to use first. Another saying from Dean was telling about the best way to maximize your company’s success is to make the profit way down the list of your priorities. Out to the side of what Dean said Karl states that teachers should not make test scores or preparing for the workforce their primary purpose for education. I totally agree with Karl to on this one that we as teachers should not focus on the success rate of our class scores but to focus on building each child up as a person and to make them more knowledgeable.
The panel also talked about what they would like to see the ideal graduate from schools look like:
• Passionate about learning.
• Self-directed, motivated.
• Curious.
• Creative.
• Global perspective. De-centered – focus on others.
• Tech enabled.
• Be problem solvers. Also problem finders.
• Able to be given a “big picture” overview of an assignment and go for it without a lot of direction.
• Collaborative.
• Learn how to learn.
• Don’t stop at the first right answer.
• Producers, not just consumers.
I think that these are all great qualities that everyone should poses and teachers should help by getting these qualities into students. By possessing these qualities it will help the students become better employees out in the work force to.
To help students become the ideal graduate teachers must focus on learning, thinking, and doing. Teacher’s need their students engaged in activities that are challenging and fun enough where the student can use there thinking skilled to figure thinks out. The activities also need to be something that can help bring out the creative side of the student, that way they can learn how to express their own creative skills in life. The goal here is to help prepare students to be successful learners, citizens, and human beings in the 21st century.