One blogger’s take on teaching technology

Patrick Higgins, in his blog CHALKDUST, recently posted his take on teaching technology. He emphasizes that students need to learn not just a variety of technologies, but also how to decide which technology is the appropriate one for any given problem. In describing why this ability to match the correct technology to the problem is so important, he references David Williamson Shaffer’s ideas about how we need to be preparing children for a global market by teaching innovation.

Epistemic Games address the issue of knowing how to solve problems in the real world because they are modeled on the training experiences of those who do. Further, they are expressly designed to instill innovative thinking in an authentic context.