I encountered more difficulties loading my lesson plan onto the blog than I had creating the lesson plan itself. After many tries I had to load it the same wat I did the pictures for the mash-up.

As far as difficutlies with the lesson I realized I had to rethink my whole lesson to tailor it towards asking essential questions. This was not a bad thing because it made me raise my whole lesson to a higher level of thinking.

All of th eoverarching questions are new questions that I added to my lesson.

I hope you can all make sense of this. I do not know how well you will all be able to see the lesson once it is posted.

WHY

Viewing the Future Through a Fischbowl

My initial reaction to 'Did You Know' was that it was just listing of data. When it made the comparison to the dominance of Great Brittan at the turn of the last century it showed what could be in store for the US if we continue on our current path.

To prepare our students for the future we will need to increase computer and technology skills. Based on the video, we will also have to re-emphasize our efforts in math and science to compete for future engineering jobs.

I think that more than ever students need to have problem solving skills to survive in the future. With the rate at which everything is changing it will be difficult to teach the specific skills that will be needed. Therefore students will need to be able to solve problems that have not been addressed before.
Teaching problem solving is very different than getting students to memorize information, this means we will need to take a different approach to teaching the skills our students need.

I believe that to make this happen we will need greater cooperation with our industrial base to communicate what needs they are looking for in their future workforce.