Education ∪ Math ∪ Technology

What do we need to know for this test?

Our students need to move from a world where this is the test for which they prepare:

Girl holding a scantron sheet

into a world where this is the test for which they prepare:

This idea and these two pictures are part of an amazing TED talk at TEDxKC given by Dr. Michael Wesch which you can watch below.

You may remember that Dr. Michael Wesch is the same person who organized the terrific video "A Vision of Students Today" which I have embedded below.

We need to recognize as educators that our duty is to prepare students for the world, whatever that may look like. We can give them as much content knowledge as we like, but if they don’t have the literacies described in Dr. Wesch’s TED talk, they won’t be successful.