Learn To Change, Change To Learn...

We've been having a lot of conversations about millennial learners - you know those young people who refuse to listen, to learn the way we want them to, to get excited about non-creative linear testing and assignments that they can't relate too. Why won't they just do what we ask of them?

This video sheds some light on why - it's a series of prestigious educators and researchers essentially talking about who our learners are (and I use the term learners not students deliberately - they are learners, hands on applied learners, not abstract studiers), and what we need to do as educators to change and meet them where they are...



I think perhaps the best comment in the video comes near the end "it's the death of education and the dawn of learning". Just think about that for a minute - the death of education and the dawn of learning - we're on the cusp of a sea change in education that will impact the very core of what we do and how we do it as educators. Talk about your paradigm shifts. Hmmm...