On the Easter weekend, CTV news aired a broadcast where a news reporter interviewed a high school principal, a university “lecturer”, and some sort of a psychologist. All were lamenting how unprepared students are for post secondary school.
Interestingly, none of them really focussed on the Wikipedia generation. They discussed values and upbringing, work habits and discipline. The one thing they did suggest is that students nowadays live in a “NOW” generation where they have SOOOO much information available at their fingertips that it creates bad habits. It creates sloppy research habits, laziness, and carelessness. (consider spelling in the average email…)
More frequently cited in the interview was the direction taken by the ministry and the boards (as they take their direction from the ministry). It was felt by the panellists that high schools are moving to a “no-fail” system. Students may have multiple chances to pass things that they fail. Students who do fail something need not repeat the entire course, but only re-do that portion which they failed. No late marks in many schools. Countless opportunities to hand in work. These are the real things that the panellists felt were detrimental to learning of our youth.
I expected more attacks on computers, games, wikipedia, etc., but it was not forthcoming.
Cheers,
Dan
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment