We like to think that we are so different from the generation before us and the generation after us. And every generation likes to look a the current generation of young people and suggest how they are not as capable, not as interested in what we do, and not as skilled as we were.
It's funny how we forget that change occurs, and for us to expect the young people of today to be like us when the world they are growing up and entering into is not the same is ludicrous. Every generation is preparing itself for its world. We just have to remember that it is a different world. These thoughts are especially important for teachers. Don't teach how you were taught. Don't teach for the world you prepared for. Engage this generation where it is. Be flexible, take your cues from them, and help them develop skills for
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When I hear people rail against the interent and about the destruction it is bringing to our society I am reminded of the Elizabethan Age and of the voices that railed against the playhouses. Of the people who forced playhouses out of the city of London and of the people who banned plays half a century later based on their beliefs.
How silly we now think those puritans were for trying to suppress Shakespeare. how silly my contemporaries will look to future generations for trying to suppress the greatest writer of the digital age to come. |
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April 2023
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