David Warlick at 2007 AASB Conference in Alaska

[boxxplayer]

The most important value of information is its validity -- is it true, biased, incomplete, false? How do we prepare students to be WISE consumers of information?

Consider student use of calculators -- just because you put in some numbers and got a result does not guarantee accuracy or applicability to the question.

How do we educate students to see past the veneer of credibility, who will do their research in peer-reviewed sources before they go to Wikipedia?

[karencsmath]

So, how is Alaska spear-heading this? I have been hearing this same thing for a decade, yet I see little change in how education is processing and employing this new literacy in my school district. When will the paradigm shift really happen? How are schools going to access this new power info learning?

[ilovechefwilliam]

What a great presentation.

[JennyPow3]

The greatest challenge is that we are preparing students for jobs that haven't been created yet.