Comments on: Is It Time For A Different Story? https://engagedlearning.co.uk/is-it-time-for-a-different-story/ Fri, 07 Jul 2017 21:36:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.1.10 By: Yossarian https://engagedlearning.co.uk/is-it-time-for-a-different-story/#comment-763 Thu, 27 Oct 2016 07:37:58 +0000 https://engagedlearning.co.uk/?p=3536#comment-763 A great summation of where we are right now: many thanks.

I think that an important point also is that a broader and more robust experience of school than practicing memorising content for the test would serve to strengthen real intellectual capital within a society. Longitudinal studies show this and schooling for both personal happiness and the economic well-being of the nation is a much longer and deeper game than that being played at present.

At the end of the day, we can have everything we need from an educational system, if, as in the face of any problem, we are collectively thoughtful, deliberate and creative.

]]> By: Lene Jensby Lange https://engagedlearning.co.uk/is-it-time-for-a-different-story/#comment-762 Mon, 24 Oct 2016 17:50:38 +0000 https://engagedlearning.co.uk/?p=3536#comment-762 David, enjoyed reading your blog post. If you are sitting in an echo chamber so am I (guess we shared it last week). And so are the educators we meet, work and discuss with in Denmark and across the world. We are at a point in history where school is no longer necessary to learn basic knowledge and skills, and where school as we know it can take on completely different forms. We are at a point in history where children and young people could in fact very much shape their own education through a rich and varied provision in strong learning communities and networks that will turn out young people who know who they are, what they care about, how they can contribute and how they learn in joyful, passionate ways. To quote a participant at one of OECDs recent Idea Factories, ‘humanities and liberal arts are as important as the natural sciences for developing a strong labour market. Why? The top jobs of 2025 will be 50% based on humanities and 50% based on natural science.’ We have yet to put that focus (back) into our schools. The emergence of technologies like social gaming, AI, VR and more makes it very clear that we need cross-curricular challenges to a much larger degree in our schools, with an increased focus on humanities and not least the arts, and on skills like empathy, the ability to listen, to engage, to collaborate, to innovate. Even with our well-rounded approach to education in Denmark we know that as many as 25% of our learners often feel bored in school. It testifies to a school system (of which Denmark is no more guilty than the rest of the world) where we have taught students to disregard their own interests and passions as well as their natural desire to engage and create. It is simply not asked for, at least not in ways that are sufficiently meaningful to our students. And so we continue to put on the show called school where students pretend to learn things that society pretends are really important while the world is changing before our very eyes.

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