PLN 11

Today I read a post off of Weblogg-ed titled "What do we Know About our Kids Futures? Really.", by Will Richardson I think the title of this post is pretty self explainitory, the big question of this post was how do parents, teachers, principals etc... prepare students for the future when they really don't know much about what is to come.

Networked–They’ll need an “outboard brain.”
More collaborative–They are going
to need to work closely with people to co-create information.
More globally
aware–Those collaborators may be anywhere in the world.
Less dependent on
paper–Right now, we are still paper training our kids.
More active–In just
about every sense of the word. Physically. Socially. Politically.
Fluent in
creating and consuming hypertext–Basic reading and writing skills will not
suffice.
More connected–To their communities, to their environments, to the
world.
Editors of information–Something we should have been teaching them all
along but is even more important now.

These were just some ideas of what Will thought in general what students should be taught and prepared for. I think this is a very hard question to answer because students themselves don't really know where their lives are going. I think the best anyone can do is do the best to plan out and try to make it come a reality, so nothing comes as a huge suprise so that it throws anyone in a bad direction.