Modern curriculum would allow for students to be actively engaged in their learning. Lots of hands on activities as well as a thirst of knowledge and the will to find the answers on their own. The knowledge they absorb should then provide a quest for further answers. Individual ownership as well as hands on experiences would give further inquiry for a continued learning encounter. To sum it up best, Wiggins statess "Take nobody's word for it, see for yourself."
Personally I do buy into the idea that we need a new approach to curriculum. I don't feel that we need to completely throw away the years of progress but rather maybe the way we go about presenting the information. Learning should be interesting and fun, there is still an essential need for the information but maybe a new approach to it.
Wiggins states that students need to know what is important. If students constantly listen to their teachers and everything that we say is essentially important then how will they know what is and isn't important? This is why there is a need to a new approach to curriculum as a whole. For students receiving special education services this idea to a new approach would be extremely beneficial to their learning experience. There are certain approaches and ideas that could be revamped to incorporate their learning styles.
I think educational change is important (I think we discussed this on Karen's blog) but I have been thinking more about it and use the doctor analogy- thank goodness that medicine is constantly changing and improving if it weren't we would still be treating patients with leeches- and certainly we don't want that!
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