21st Century education is at the cross-roads. It can continue to be
defined by a narrow scope, benefiting the median student who can
muster moments of brilliance assisted by the technology he or she
so easily wields, or it can salvage what was deemed noble by
tradition and merge them with the modernistic tools and educational
innovations of the new century. Education has reached a point where
its students and parents have either seen the limitations of the
system and accepted them, or have forged some external responses to
them. These retorts can be seen in the following manifestations:
the rise of after- school athletics, where sports are now played
that have been deemed too aggressive for school, the explosion of
tutoring centres who are capitalizing on the fact that process has
been a small part of the curriculum and rudimentary skills are
overshadowed by what can be best described as educational pulp, and
finally, the growth of the independent/private schools and home
schooling, where total abdication from public systems has come to
rest. Comic books, robotics, industrial arts, instrumental music,
cooking, camping, fine art, and other genuine experiential
initiatives need to be examined by today's schools. The empty
promises of video games and their ethereal claim to genuine
experience has produced a significant student body that is resigned
to mediocrity, and virtual encounters that provide neither the
authentic feeling of victory, nor the reviled sting of true defeat.
Students are looking for the genuine, in their teachers, lessons,
and activities. 21st Century education by comic book or by hook
will rest in the power of professional dynamism and the authentic
teaching of practice, process, and prolonged proficiency.
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