My Econ students have been reading Thomas Friedman's The World is Flat 3.0. Last week we read the chapter about what skills would be needed for the new "middle jobs". This week we started reading chapter 7, which talks about how we learn and prepare in terms of education for those jobs. I draw a box on the board and called it our "school" and asked students to fill it with "classes" that would help prepare them for the 21st century jobs that we had previously discussed. Here is what they came up with:
Love that your students are reading Friedman. Interested in what their thoughts are on his perspective on liberal arts education?
ReplyDeleteI love how none of these are disciplinary silos (which, I'm guessing, is how your students experience most of their school days).
ReplyDeleteThey are reading the liberal arts education in class today with a sub but I'm hoping to have some guest blog posts about it because we are having some REALLY interesting conversations come out of it all.
ReplyDeleteBased on the photo, after they generated the concepts, the students were able to identify what they found important in other students' thoughts. That is great. In addition, I see a few "no" statements, which may be even better. That may not be logical, but when someone disagrees, the emotion of that person brings out the intellectual defenses of those that agree. That is what creates passionate debate and discussion. As long as it is kept in an appropriate manner, these exchanges are the most valuable. Nice approach to students leading the educational way.
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