Often after presentations, I will hear things like, “This is really cool, but what’s the next big thing in education?”
My response?
Shouldn’t we become great at what we are doing now first?
The problem with continuously focusing on the future is that we are often neglecting the present. The next cool “app” often leads us to going a mile-wide and an inch-deep. We want our students to have meaningful learning, yet we often want to implement every new thing we hear about or see, that we never really become great at anything.
While we are fixated on things like “school in 2030”, just remember that there are kids in your building that need you to knock it out the park right now. Just like we want our students to have deep and powerful learning experiences, we have to learn how to create these same opportunities for ourselves. That takes dedication and long-term commitment, which are the same things we are hoping to develop in our kids.
