(2005-11-04) Warlick Teacher Learning Target

David Warlick suggests taking a queue from Computer Game skill-level advancement for Educating Kids (Learning Curve) - That monster is always called, the boss. To the video game generation, the boss is someone who is a barrier between the player and where the player wants to be. John Beck suggests that the supervisor (or teacher) should instead become the strategy guide or cheat sheet, a document players download from the Net or purchase in video game stores. They include shortcuts through the barriers of the game. Perhaps our challenge, as teachers, is to compellingly define and describe that next level, create a place where the players want to be. If we do it right, then our students will come to us for the short cuts (curriculum) that help them get there. Classroom learning, will always require a leader. But is it better to push a stalled car, or steer one that has someplace to go.