School. Different.

Who are the students you want leaving your classroom
every day?

What do you hope they know how to do with what
they've learned?

What do you hope they care about?

\"I now have
almost totally lost
the ability to read
and absorb a
longish article on
the web or in
print,\"

Thanks to the ubiquity of text on
the Internet, not to mention the
popularity of text-messaging on
cell phones, we may well be
reading more today than we did in
the 1970s or 1980s, when
television was our medium of
choice.

The Net's influence doesn't end at the edges of a computer screen,
either. As people's minds become attuned to the crazy quilt of
Internet media, traditional media have to adapt to the audience's new
expectations. Television programs add text crawls and pop-up ads,
and magazines and newspapers shorten their articles, introduce
capsule summaries, and crowd their pages with easy-to-browse info-
snippets.

First Departure

Second Departure

Do kids learn to think by reading great literature, doing difficult math
and learning history, philosophy and science? Or can they tackle
those subjects on their own if schools simply teach them to
problem-solve, communicate, use technology and think creatively?

Should Dance, Art, and Music be given equal footing with
Math, Science, Languages, and History?

Divergent Thinking

What Does it Mean to Be Well-Educated
in Today’s World?

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