View from the Classroom
We’ve all been witness to a long-running debate in education about how to prepare students for the 21st century workplace. That’s why I was attracted to this short article in Education Quarterly, via Blended Education, about the use of technology in the classroom. Here’s a quote from the Conclusion:
Students in today’s classrooms are preparing to enter careers in which they will need to know not only facts but also how to retrieve new information and how to integrate this information into the construction of knowledge to solve complex, real-world problems. They need to know not only discipline-specific content but also critical thinking, communication, social, and computer skills. Instructors’ efforts at incorporating technology into their classrooms to foster these types of skills will help students get ready to enter an ever-changing world as life-long learners.
You could say that this summary for educational pedagogy in the classroom should also guide most of the training and education that needs to go on in almost every workplace in America.
I found an interesting example of how one might blend the worlds of education and work, using technology. If you are involved in recruiting, and thus involved with writing job postings, you should check this out.