Latest News and Comment from Education

Thursday, January 5, 2012

High school students know that their learning isn’t relevant | Dangerously Irrelevant

High school students know that their learning isn’t relevant | Dangerously Irrelevant:

High school students know that their learning isn’t relevant

Bored teenage girls in class

As was so aptly said just a few days ago:

It is hard to make an argument that there are many desirable post-secondary educational or career scenarios for current high school students that will not require the use of computer technology on a daily basis. The kids have known this for quite some time now. High school students know that they will almost certainly be using computers in any desirable job that they manage to get after high school. They know that a computer is a requirement for success in today's higher eduction environments. They know that, in the "real world," college students don't write papers in longhand on loose-leaf notebook paper; they know that, in the "real world," people don't