tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5776587.post2978258620406300957..comments2023-11-03T04:00:24.785-04:00Comments on Kentucky School News and Commentary: Ky. shortchanges public educationRichard Dayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14586435007687942849noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5776587.post-76837597891076235972013-09-20T12:49:53.439-04:002013-09-20T12:49:53.439-04:00Don't folks know, we don't need any more m...Don't folks know, we don't need any more money, all we need are more proceedures, report writing and assessment formulas. Only thing we need dollars for is purchasing more of those fancy Ipads and tablets for kids. As it has been explained to me, students today learn differently and their "brains are wired differently" so as a result we must teach differently. So now the teacher not only needs to channel instruction through those perceived new modes of learning, they inessense must themselves become students. In an ironic paradox, teachers are being expected to teach to new student perceptual capacities through an expectations that they change their own capacities via training modes which they are not accustomed. I know I am digressing but my colleagues in the state universities all lament a common and growing loss of undergraduate reading and writing ability over the last five years. It would seem that in our efforts to cater to these new learning styles that we are creating folks who perceive education from a consumer's perspecitve more than a students and in the absense of needed academic skills at the collegiate level, they are hitting a road block gated with noncredit remediation courses.<br /><br />No, we don't need any more money in education, we just need to tell ourselves that kids minds are so completely different that we can simply change the system and expectations and just hope that the jobs of the future on require YouTube, Wikapedia and tweet levels of communication and knowledge.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com