Marc Prensky

Probably the biggest reason that tell-test is failing to do the job it used to is that the world of the learner has changed so dramatically. As a result, learners no longer see themselves as receptacles to be filled up with content, but as creators and doers. And that these changes have happened so quickly is a primary reason education and training hasn’t changed to keep up. Even in normal times education is slow to change. But now there is the phenomenon in which kids have totally outpaced their parents and elders in the new ways of the world. Learners have access to and experience with so much before they … Continue reading Marc Prensky