It means that schools should be the places where all classes of children are able to engage society's tools for thinking. The challenge of school engagement is to direct active involvement of each student and the teachers in constructing deep understanding and skillful use of analytic tools. Students who are disengaged are too difficult to teach. We need to find ways to reach not just the students who come to school with the background and resources to perform well, but all students. This will involve some adjustment of the school and classroom to acknowledge the simple fact that all people do not learn at the same rate or even in the same way.
Technology provides some options for creating more personalized approaches to learning.
It does this in two ways. It provides for more individualize learning and it offers communication tools for organizing collaborative knowledge building. You can add to both our strategy and resource libraries. We are also interested to any reactions that you might have to the the way in which we have used a drama metaphor to help shape our discussion about school change. Join the Scripts and Challenges discussion forum to share or discuss any ideas about planning for school change.