We may be tired of hearing that some percentage of our students will be working in jobs that don’t exist yet. Whatever the figures, you don’t have to look far to find people working in jobs that didn’t exist even ten years ago. Tom March is conducting PD for teachers interested in exploring how technology might be used to prepare students for a less predictable workforce. And now for a video…
Just because you saw it on youtube doesn’t mean its true, but what are we preparing our students for? Many are intrinsically motivated by their fee paying parents, to perform well on tests. Teachers throw in the element of competition which they know to be a big motivator, particularly for boys, and its a formula for some pretty good VCE results for a number of students. Could we be doing more? Tom March has created a model for developing intrinsic motivation called CEQUALL. Its a jolly good read and in the Web 2 tradition, if you don’t agree you have the opportunity to say so. Last year a group of teachers worked on the MyPlace project. This year’s group has a challenge I find daunting – to master the technology and collaboratively apply the educational theory to develop online learning experiences that will motivate all of our students to pursue quality.
