The MA Ed blog for curriculum lads

Kelly starts by defining curriculum, but this is more difficult than you would first think.

Should the curriculum be defined as what should be learned or the skills that should be developed.

Kelly says the most dangerous fallacy is that the knowledge content of the curriculum is paramount.

This would be a useful paper to consider the idea that we know a lot about curriculum theory, but for some reason we choose not to put it into practice. Kelly would argue that the curriculum designers have an ulterior motive.

This was the paper that started all the change for me – I first read it just before getting involved with the \clc project at Middleton.

It challenges what we are doing in education.

Some useful quotes

“…a belief that is we are to build world class schools for a knowledge society then it is not sufficient to merely tinker with existing structures.”

Read it again and again

You can get it here

by Mitchel Resnik – pdf cited

Resnik says we need to update our model of education to prepare students for the future.  In particular to think of computers as aiding the creative process, rather than just making existing teaching happen faster or more efficiently.  This give kids the independance to think creatively.