I think that there is a potential problem being stored up for people if education is tailored to fit into their cultural and personal preferences, as I think that people will become too accustomed to everything being suitable for themselves, and will resultantly stop pushing themselves to work harder.
If you spend all your time out of school on computers playing games, and you go into school and do the same because your education has been tailored to suit you, I don’t think you would learn? I think that people would end up getting bored of the technology because it was involved in every aspect of their life, it would also make them harder to distinguish their entertainment/education time, inevitably mixing it all up so that the education side lacks behind?
I’m a strong believer that entertainment should be kept separate from educational aspects of life; you don’t go to a lecture and get to watch TV at the same time do you? But why? Because according to Prensky, as some of us watch TV out of University whilst doing work – this is how we now learn! So Universities should involve TV programmes within our lecture? (Obviously Prensky has not said this, but God knows what’s going to be suggested in the next few years!)
I think that people would become lazy if everything was suited to their needs. I also think it would cause mayhem in institutions if everyone was learning different things in different ways! Undoubtedly resulting in a lack of support from the ‘traditional’ tutors?
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RINCY
I agree with you Megan. Ive noted on my bolg the question of 'when do you draw the line?'
If you are changing the rules for everyone, you need to be fair and to change them for others too. Ypu cant please everyone in life and I think teachers need to teach children that from a young age.
There are rules and regulations there for a reason!
i also agree that you would actually become lazy! you wouldnt really have experiance and the right expectations of the real world either because not everythin will be tailored for your personal preferences, for example in jobs and decision making
I'm not convinced it's about being lazy -or working hard. I think it's more about being empowered.
Only being able to cope with information if it's presented in ways and forms that you've been happy with since childhood doesn't empower you at all.
I'm with you on the 'don't invade my life' front. As an A level student I spent much of my time in the pub. There was no way I wanted my teachers to teach me there -and I didn't want my pirate radio stations to be invaded by pedagogy either!
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