But a small group of outspoken education scholars is challenging that assumption, saying the push for 21st-century skills is taking a dangerous bite out of precious classroom time that could be better spent learning deep, essential content.
Go to the following link for more details. http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2009-03-04-core-knowledge_N.htm
Which way of learning do you think is best for Singaporean children?
I think both sides of the arguments have their own reasons. No one is wrong. However, i am more for the side where we encourage students to think critically and creatively, be technologically savvy and work well with others.
ReplyDeleteI think this is best for Singaporean children because we really need people equipped with these skills. Singapore is a small country with people as its only resource. We cannot earn money by selling natural resoources such as crude oil to earn money. We can only sell our creative innovations and inventions. That is why our government have been pumping in so mouch money on educating our future generations. In order we produce creative innovations and inventions, we need people with those skills mentioned above.
Other than the economy aspect of those skills, there is also the social aspect. If we do not produce people with those skills, we will forever be trapped with what we are having now with no improvement. There will not be better computers and electronic. Besides that, there will also not be any improvement in medical treatment and sciences. This is of course not what we want.
The world we are living in should also be improving and not stay still at where it is. The fact that we are living in such comfortable state with various technologies is because the scientist that invented all these had those mentioned skills.
Hui Ming 0919