Teaching with Technology #5

Student’s “know a lot of facts but can’t solve problems” (Big Thinkers: James Paul Gee on grading with games). I know when I went to school all we spent time on was trying to make sure we had random facts memorized: dates, computation, and other concepts that were to be taught in our given grade levels. Now, I realize that old school teaching was just rote memorization but if we want our students to evolve and be able to be successful and productive adults we must teach them how to actually solve problems and work collaboratively, as stated in this video. As educators, we need to teach our students how to solve problems and think critically, in other words apply what has been learned, just memorizing random facts in isolation is no longer the way for our students to attain success. Edutopia.org (nd). Big thinkers: James Paul Gee on grading with games. Retrieved from http://www.edutopia.org/digital-generation-james-gee-video