This global crisis is an excellent opportunity to rethink and retool our whole approach to many of our institutions, education included. Our old ways of thinking/working/teaching/learning have all led us here - a global pandemic with almost half a million dead souls around the world.
But how did this happen to OUR country, given our prosperity and the economic and technological advantages we enjoy? Where's our American Exceptionalism? Where are our smart people? Where are our leaders?
AWOL.
So then what better time for change? The in-the-box, norm-referenced, standardized way of thinking has failed us and brought about this crisis. It's time to reimagine our whole approach to living and teaching in the 21st century. Buh bye text book and testing companies controlling the politicians that manipulate the educational purse strings! Buh bye the one-size-fits-all approach to teaching and learning from last century. It's time for something different.
We need a new vision for this country. And instead of it coming from billionaire bozos like Bezos, who have only profited from this pandemic, let it begin with us in education.
