Hi everyone!

This is going to be a fairly short post but I read/heard this somewhere and thought I would share it with all of you. Someone said that in today’s world, we need to change our focus from what we learn to how we learn. The future employers of the world are not going to care what you learned. In fact, what you learned in school won’t make any difference because a lot of jobs our children are going to be choosing from don’t even exist yet. Look at nanotechnology which wasn’t even around when we were children, or web page creation. How do we train students for that if all we are doing is teaching content? They need more than just content; little bits of extraneous and completely unrelated bits of information. They need to learn how to learn! If you haven’t seen it yet, check out the video on our blog.

So, the title of this piece is “Did you ask a good question today?” What does that mean? When we are talking to our children about school, what do we usually ask them? “What did you learn in school today?” This sort of question focuses on content. But what if we change the question to “Did you ask a good question today?” Then we start focusing on how our children are learning: By asking questions!! What sort of response do you think you will get? Do you think our children will start asking more and better questions in class?

Let’s start asking the question!