"...the purpose of education in America, we have to accept (is) in part ... to ensure that citizens are ready to be intelligent employees." (Schrum & Solomon, 2007)
I found this quote in a required reading for for my IT course this week and it caught my attention as a related topic to a project that our students were assigned. Our school assigned students in homeroom classes a project to come up with ways to discuss and defend the importance of Accountability, Attendance, Assessments, Aspirations, Academics, and Attitude in school and in life. Two students I spoke with told me that their attitudes determine how others will treat them and if they would be able to get a job, among other things. Not only do we, as teachers, need to guide and shape the intelligence of future employees, we also need to guide and shape the accountability, attendance, assessment, aspirations, and attitudes of future employees.
Web 2.0: New Tools, New Schools, Gwen Solomon and Lynne Schrum
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