{"id":4867,"date":"2012-11-26T19:53:04","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T02:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ilearntechnology.com\/?p=4867"},"modified":"2012-11-26T19:53:04","modified_gmt":"2012-11-27T02:53:04","slug":"shocking-the-real-purpose-of-your-life-or-what-are-we-preparing-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/?p=4867","title":{"rendered":"Shocking! The real purpose of your life! or What are we preparing for?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LwmbUzMViiU\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nToday @lancefinkbeiner shared this video with me.\u00a0 It is too good not to share!\u00a0 Now&#8230;how to make this the reality of what learning is really about in schools.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t tell you how often in education that the answer for why something is done is, &#8220;we are preparing kids for&#8230;&#8221;\u00a0 For example, we give 3 hours of homework to elementary students because we are &#8220;preparing them for middle school.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 In middle school we give additional homework and weekly tests because we are &#8220;preparing them for high school.&#8221;\u00a0 High school has it&#8217;s own set of ridiculous standards in preparation for college.<\/p>\n<p>My question: when are we preparing kids for life?\u00a0 When are we preparing them to engage in the world around them?\u00a0 When are we preparing them for healthy relationships with others?\u00a0 When are we preparing them to ask good questions and seek answers?\u00a0 When are we preparing them for what to do with failure?<\/p>\n<p>The problem for preparing kids for the next system they will encounter is that the next system isn&#8217;t really the goal.\u00a0 That goal is this imaginary place we call &#8220;success&#8221; and &#8220;perfection&#8221;.\u00a0 Neither exist.\u00a0 How do we prepare kids to live honest, meaningful lives?\u00a0 THAT is what I am interested in preparing for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today @lancefinkbeiner shared this video with me.\u00a0 It is too good not to share!\u00a0 Now&#8230;how to make this the reality of what learning is really about in schools.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t tell you how often in education that the answer for why something is done is, &#8220;we are preparing kids for&#8230;&#8221;\u00a0 For example, we give 3&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3528,2191,111,197,7,768,8,188],"tags":[438,4729,17,4045,4047,193,3179,4048,2922,4046,3093,194,4717,460],"class_list":["post-4867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anastasis-academy-2","category-education-reform","category-inspiration","category-middlehigh-school","category-primary-elementary","category-professional-development","category-secondary-elementary","category-video","tag-college","tag-education-reform","tag-elementary","tag-high","tag-honest","tag-learning","tag-life","tag-meaningful-life","tag-middle","tag-preparation","tag-prepare","tag-school","tag-video","tag-you-tube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4868,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4867\/revisions\/4868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}