The way we look at education has to change. After watching this video, along with ‘Shift Happens‘ and a few others like ‘A Vision of Students Today‘ and ‘Information R/evolution‘ recently, I’ve been thinking alot about our educational system. Being a 20 year homeschool veteran, but being a public school and state university student growing up, I come away wondering where it’s all going….or more importantly, where it should be going.
It’s amazing that we have more information at our fingertips than ever before, yet very little of that ability is being applied to maximizing that 180 days of required school time each year. I don’t want to dispute or promote any of the immensely diverse homeschool or public school teaching philosophies, but I think we all need to crawl out of our academic slurries and take a look around. The world is changing at an exponential rate. Time is not on our side. As soon as something is taught, it’s outdated, so what do we do?
Computers, the internet, cell phones, game systems, MP3 players, media of various kinds….this is where our kids connect with the world, why aren’t we using these systems to connect our kids to what they need to know to become responsible and productive adults? In a perfect world, there would be two internets, one for education, the other commercial. Since that isn’t the case, are there classes teaching kids how to search the internet safely and productively? They figure it out, sure, but at what cost? After they’ve found more garbage than good? Why aren’t computers being used to individualize each students learning pace?
Enough of my ranting, what is the answer? Homeschooling offers parents the freedom to create an ideal education for their child, but are often ill-equipped to do so. I get overwhelmed at times wondering if I can even begin to keep up with the advancing technology…can they? Kids seem to have a second nature with all this tech stuff, our challenge as parents is to channel that nature into advantageous activities.
One of the main reasons we developed our Home Business Course is because it’s just one example of a real life project that incorporates many areas of learning. Motivating learning by doing something that has purpose works for adults and kids alike! You don’t have to take the course to start a business with your child, and it doesn’t even have to be make money. You could start a non-profit, teaching all the aspects of fundraising and everything it takes just to help a group of people.
Starting a business as a school project also begins to develop an ‘Entrepreneurial Mindset’ – and your children may begin to see how all those tech gadgets can be used for building their business, and may even discover new ways of using them, or improving them.. the possibilities are endless. Maybe the mindless ways TV, cellphones, MP3 players and the like are being used can be transformed into tools to build their minds enough to possibly keep up with the pace knowledge is moving……..
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