To me, the concept of "stretching" a person relates to the idea of pushing an individual as far as possible, to gain the most from their educational abilities. The way I look at is that education challenges your potential and skills, in order "up" yourself, which can be used in later life, careers etc.
By stretching yourself you are providing yourself with a new level of knowlegde, new information which can help in the long run. Education is such a large and diverse area, so of course stretching should take place. An example of stretching within education which springs to mind is communcation and persuasion and the secondary readings. By doing the "should" (but not "must") reads, we stretch ourselves, making ourself consume more of the unit work, and obviously this will come handy when doing the final assessment!
In a way I think E-learning can "stretch" you within education, as we are submitting the work individually, and we have the oppurtunity to blog on anything do to with NMC that we wish too. We can bring in other interesting information we find and do extra blogs if we have the time and want to, which to me suggests that does indeed stretch a person.
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I think you're right about the 'future-oriented' nature of education that stretches.
ReplyDeleteCurrent students would be poorly served by an experience that shielded them from the use of communication technology in work. -And by the same token, if students were shielded from the traditional ways of dealing with information and communiscation, they would be ill-served too.
Prensky is a games designer who thinks that games are much more important than other people realise. He overstates his case in the end doesn't he?