Technology for Teachers : The World is Flat
This was a book I read last time last year and I’m still thinking about the book on an almost daily basis. I’m not necessarily drinking the cool-aid that Tom Friedman is serving but there is so much that he said that is right on target. So much of what we are not aware about going on in the world is going to catch up and pass us by if we don’t take the time to be aware! We are producing a society of consumers and losing the society of producers.
I will say that a flatter world is making a more efficiently world. In rural Maine hospitals don’t have to find specialists to cover 24/7 at the hospital but that hospital can outsource some of their work to other parts of the world but still keep the same quality of care, AMAZING!
I go to what I said in the podcast education should incorporate more thought process and situational education vs. regurgatation of factual information that standards based education is promoting right now.
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