While most of my previous blogs may have seamed like rants that schools need be ‘modern’ and to try and keep up with the times and I just  found a video on teacher-tube that looks at the same issue. Shift-happens totally blew me away, it  really makes you think about why we need to teach problem solving and creativity not just content, skills and simple processes. Some of the ideas proposed are amazing, consider the implications of teaching students for jobs that don’t yet exist.   Think about the importance of the web and social networking sites if that many million children are already using my space and billions of Google enquiries are made every year.   This is just enormous evidence of the changes that are already happening.  The video claimed a weeks worth of the times newspaper contains more information than a person was likely to come across in a lifetime in the 18th century, it makes being a future teacher sound both daunting and very exciting. With that much information out there it becomes more important to know how to find it, use it and how to share it.  More than anything this should get you thinking…..

Download Video: Posted by alexsavage at TeacherTube.com.