The Times They are A'changin

 Wesch just completely highlighted thoughts I have been having yesterday about the lack of education to react to innovation. The world is changing around us and this is clearly changing the way that kids think, learn, and process the world around us. Yet so many educators are willing to continue with the procedures and methods that may or may not have been effective in the dawn of the Industrial Age (or even earlier). We are no longer a place to create good factory workers, but yet we continue to use bells to tell our "workers" when they should move to a different place on the assembly line. Things need to change and Wesch gave us the opportunity to see how that change may look. We need to engage our students in guiding their own creative and critical thinking toward a realistic goal and not teach them like empty receptacles that we need to fill with the knowledge that we have learned in our lives. 

The audience here is obviously receptive to this concept. I am most worried about those teachers not here and how difficult it will be include them in on the change.