Preparing Kids for the Unknown
2010-10-29 16:16:33.450585+00 by Dan Lyke 1 comments
Chris in Florida passed along NY Times: Preparing Kids for the Unknown, some musings on what kids may face. Some of it is a little apocalyptic:
... What if a fully wired, completely interconnected, always-on global marketplace of ideas and innovation isnt actually what the future will look like, she asks. What if were raising our kids to succeed in a George Jetson kind of world, but they wind up living more like Fred Flintstone?
I've known people all my life who were, in one way or another, preparing for the collapse of society, and though history suggests that sooner or later they're gonna be right it's hard to not just ride the bubble while it's here. On the other hand, some of the musings in there are a good reminder that we ought to be thinking about teaching kids to problem solve in a bunch of different environments, and not simply figure out how to regurgitate what's shoveled into them.