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• Delayed grtification animals
  If only. I agree that this is a matter of balance. Yes, schools must do much more to use the tools that students find compelling. And certainly immediate feedback from not just the teacher but from peers is central. Good teachers jumped on wikis and blogs as tools that do just that -- allow for collabortaion, peer support and a larning community, while providing students with a real audience, both in the classroom and out.
  
  But all this needs to be balanced against the need to develop learners who are willing to do the hard work of truly internalizing knowledge and building on the work of those who went before to create the next generation of break-through ideas. And while external validation is important, so is the pleasure derived from a personal awareness of a "job well done." In reply to: "Are wired kids well served by schools?"

  April 26, 2008

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