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=Our responsibility...=

If a surgeon from the 1800s walked into an operating room today where arthroscopic surgery was being performed, could that surgeon step in and perform the surgery? No way. The surgeon would not even understand what the procedure was, would not understand what the instruments were, and would be totally lost about what was going on.

But if a teacher from the 1800s walked into a classroom today, could he or she substitute as a teacher? If so, why would that be possible? Perhaps the educators of the 1800s were able to anticipate the needs of the 21st century and designed a system that perfectly fits our educational purposes today. The other possibility is that our industrial era schools have not changed to keep pace with our current understanding of cognition and learning. If this system of factory era schooling does not meet the needs of today’s learners and the demands of our information age economy, we have a problem. If we have a system that does not fit our needs anymore, we must begin thinking about how to transform the educational system we have.

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