Monday, April 17, 2006

How does my study relate to education?

How bout this?

The teenage experts did not gain any of their learning from education and traditional schooling; they gained their expertise by independent means.

How has education affected teenage technological expertise? It hasn’t.

Schooling does not teach expertise.

Teenage technological experts do not require schooling.

Schooling does not teach how to be an expert; it does not teach how the process of expertise is achieved.

Technology is not about doing; it is about thinking. Providing children with the opportunity to create, negotiate, trial, and explore enhances learning of expertise and learning in general, rather than doing, i.e. completing a task.

Discussion welcomed