PLN 12

I think the post What Do We Know About Our Kids’ Futures? Really. it talks about something that most parents don't really care about. They may say they do, but they are more concerned with thier own lives like work. They don't understand that they need to help their kids with school so that they will have a bright future. The future is so unpredictable, but there are ways for parents to still prepare them for it like by making them eat healthier and be more active so that they can learn how to eat well and be fit when they are older. Here are some more of the tips Will Richardson offered in his blog.

• Networked–They’ll need an “outboard brain.”
  
• More collaborative–They are going to need to work closely with people to co-create information.
  
• More globally aware–Those collaborators may be anywhere in the world.
  
• Less dependent on paper–Right now, we are still paper training our kids.
  
• More active–In just about every sense of the word. Physically. Socially. Politically.
  
• Fluent in creating and consuming hypertext–Basic reading and writing skills will not suffice.
  
• More connected–To their communities, to their environments, to the world.
  
• Editors of information–Something we should have been teaching them all along but is even more important now.

What matters to me:

I think these are all great tips that could help improve the adults of the future. It helps with so many aspects that could be different in the future like the enviornment, health, jobs, people. The world is constantly changing with the development of new technologies and new jobs. With this is new people. People change along with the world so I want to be prepared for the new changes in the future. What will happen if I don't help the enviorment and in 60 years we are all out of our energy resources and the earth is trashed and everyone is really really fat and not smart, then what will we do?