We are living in a rapidly changing world, and our students
are the same. The momentum in which
things have been changing appears only to be getting faster as new technology
and the internet continue to gain influence in our society. You have to think, when you were younger the
web wasn’t around, and yet today, the children that come into our classrooms
were born into a world where the web was as natural to their lives as water is
to drink.
It sparks some very important questions:
What should we be teaching our students?
And how can we change the curriculum of the
past to better fit the students of the future?
Technology is a large part of the curriculum question, but
the even larger concern is how to still keep the integrity of the past lessons and
methods of education. It has been one of
the most important questions I ask myself on a day to day basis because of the
“great English works” I am suppose to teach.
The best answer I can come up with is this: I believe that my curriculum
should be changing and evolving every year.
While I still believe in “great works,” I believe more in the literacy lessons
that will best serve my students. It is
not all about the technology, but the rapid evolution of technology is a great
parallel to the rapidly changing word of humanity, and yet the evolution of our
public school curriculum is still not keeping up.
It is something that needs,
actually, has to change…and soon.
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