View from the Corner Room » wisdom http://nporter.edublogs.org Nathaniel Porter's ponderings on teaching, learning and the views from the classroom. Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:22:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Wisdom and the 21st Century http://nporter.edublogs.org/2008/11/18/wisdom-and-the-21st-century/ http://nporter.edublogs.org/2008/11/18/wisdom-and-the-21st-century/#comments Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:11:27 +0000 nporter http://nporter.edublogs.org/?p=61 So here we have a couple of wise videos.

What is Wisdom?

Jim Burke got me thinking with his post this week about wisdom. I made me look back to Chris Lehmann’s 5 min talk which he ended with the statement about teaching wisdom. Chris’ final point had been with me for awhile. Wow can I teach wisdom. Sounds cool but can it be done?

Jim’s link to this YouTube clip not only is it a great piece to watch but it made me think that maybe the “undefined wisdom” would not be that easy to teach after all.  No really! But as we are having to look at what we need to be teaching for 21st century learners are we not trying to move to teach less specific content and more thinking and problem solving skills.

Will this lead us to a wiser crowd in the long run? Or as Jim Burke ask can a crowd have wisdom? and or does an online crowd have wisdom?

Chris Lehmann in 5 mins.

Wisdom

Enjoy these and think about it!

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