GroupI

Please add your group's responses to the prompt:

===**Group I - mandate that every class should have at least one outside connection (off campus). We need an off campus mentor, international connection or something that gives the kids an ongoing, outside source of information. - Teach our faculty to be comfortable with this new way of knowing and not reject such things offhand. It is very different from how all of us were educated and it won’t be an easy task, but we run the risk of becoming as outdated as scriptoria were at the onset of printing. - Use senior seminar to create “thin walls” and teach students to be wise consumers of internet information. Perhaps find one outside, offsite mentor for the class. - The role of the teacher: changes in the role of the teacher; sage on the stage; guide on the side recently. Now the connector is as a facilitator of learning. Moving beyond classroom walls to become a global village of learners. Moving from traditional curriculum – one course at a time – to a cross-curriculum and beyond the school to a global classroom of collaborative learners.**=== What about video games? Will we ever use them meaningfully to teach through simulations? Why are they so hypnotic for kids? Do they make them active or passive learners, since they are ultimately artficial? Covering content concisely and efficiently is a challenge. Bringing together fast-breaking and divergent sources is an intellectual challenge -- a bit scary, though necessary. A lot of work!