Week 9- Question 3) Should education 'stretch a person do you think?

I think it is important to 'stretch' a person to some degree. I think children from a young age should be encouraged to learn more so they are always reaching a certain standard of understanding that they should be at that particular age. The more they are pushed at a young age to learn the more likely they are going to want to learn more at an older age.
I think that children should encouraged how to learn through computers and the internet but not so they are sat infront of tehm all the time. I think 2-3 hors a week is plenty to able to inform them and give them the practice that they will need later on in their life wether it be in a job or at university. I think this is important as in society today we need too be able to have the ability to be able to use this new technology and keep up with the developmets so we don't get left behind.

In relation to what prensky says about teaching via methods familiar to natives like digital gameing. As the idea that education should be challenging has been forgotton or simply pushed a side. I think that young peolple today should be stretched to learn with old traditional methods as well as incorperating new ways and bringing digital technology into the curriculum. This way they are not just relying on technology to learn but are still having an understanding of how to use it for educational purposes. Also then neither digital imigrants or natives will feel out of their depths.

I think it is also important to stretch a person and keep encouraging them to do better so they don't feel like they have already reached a certain goal and don't have to stretch themselves any further as they feel like they already know enough. This can make people become lazy as they feel like no more effort or learning is needed as they think they know enough already to get by causing them to maybe not do as well as they should in exams or coursework for example. So i think it is important for teacher/turors to always push people to learn more and try harder this way they are gaining more knowledge all the time and expanding their brain, making them use their full potential.

I think praise and encouragement should be given so it motivates people to do more and keep up to a certain standard. I think that if a student is good at a particular subject more than another then they should pay more attention to that subject as they know they can do well and get far. However i do not believe that the other subjects should be pushed aside because of this and they still should be pushing themselves in these subjects to so they don't completely loose interest.