What percentage of today's curriculum and classroom time fosters each generation thinking skills?Should this change? Why?
I think at the current moment, that the greatest percentage of our time in class and the curriculum focuses on 3rd generation skills followed by 2nd and 4th tied for time and 1st lingering around the edges of the others. This definitely needs to change. The greatest percentage needs to be on 4th generation technical and digital skills that scaffold, support, and expand upon the first three generations of thinking skills. There should be an equality and a balance to our learning in which each part compliments and aids the other parts.
There was a time in which I fervently agreed with you (and my prior writing). In the last few months, I've been looking at the first literacy, hand composition, and gotten deep into the neuroscience literature. Now I find myself wondering more about how to achieve a balance, a healthy harmony between all 4. Is there a universal balance or will it vary with the situation? Probably the latter.
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