As I watch the YouTube video Shift Happens I realize that change is coming weather we like it or not. Learning is becoming more about knowing how to obtain inf0rmation rather than memorization, which is what many of us have been taught to do. In our world there will eventually be too much information for anyone to memorize, so it is important to know how to find answers rather then know them already. Other countries are becoming more and more able to take on our jobs and speak our language better than we are able to. We need to know how to be problem solvers rather than memorizers. New technologies come about everyday and like the video says we need to learn and be ready for jobs that we don’t even know exist yet. The way to do that is to be able to know where to go to learn about things and have your questions answered. We must advance into a new way of learning. Our world is constantly in motion and not just literally but figuratively there are always new things coming about and new things happening. In the video there is a statement about the New York Times that amazes me ” one week of New York Times is as much information as there was in the 18th Century”. To me this is amazing. For any teacher to believe that memorization is beneficial to learning at this point in time is wrong. We must learn and understand and be able to solve problems and reason if we are to be successful in the world the way it is progressing.
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