David Warlick: Telling the new story: leverage points for inspiring change

David Warlick's short video-web presentation focused on the growing awareness of how our students think and operate in this digital age. An interesting component to his presentation, that was new information to me was where David foresees our future job market. Not only will our future students have choice in engineering markets, but the creative arts jobs will continue to rise as well. David talks about how our society is visual/auditory culture, we are more interested in the new story of how a piece of technology works than how it operates/runs.
This is true for our classrooms. Our instruction needs to still address those basic skills all students should equip themselves with, but the way we present the material and the method we want students to "think" through ideas...creates a new story in our classrooms.
As a teacher, I will work to introduce an on-line blog as a way for my students to publish writings as well as infuse more visual forms to student learning. The idea of project-based learning, and thematic-based learning makes sense. As a teacher working with high school teens, I will continue to rewrite the story in my classroom and keep it compelling.