Analysis Of Marc Prensky's Article The World Needs A New Curriculum

According to Marc Prensky in his article “The World Needs a New Curriculum”, our current curriculum is based on a set of “proxies” which actually can’t help our next generations much in future as their generation is “internet generation”. Curriculum supposes to be based on the real underlying educational needs. However, our curriculum focuses too much on academics instead of skills. He suggested that they need a new education core and set of basics.

Marc Prensky suggests that our next generation need four important skills which are to think effectively, act effectively, relate effectively and accomplish effectively. These skills can help them to be successful. However, these skills are not included in our current education system. Therefore,

Technology enables student to do individualized work on those four key skills and do things faster and better. New curriculum does not focus on technology but to use technology to help our students’ becoming better at Effective Thinking, Effective Action, Effective Relationships and Effective Accomplishment.

Teachers no longer are the distributors all the content as technology will do well on the content side. However, they still play important part in new curriculum. Educators must work with technology to assure that the technology does what it can do best, such as provide lots of differentiated and individualized examples and help students understand and interpret those examples. Teachers have to motivate students, respect them, empathizing with them, and encouraging their individual passions.

Will this new curriculum work in making the world a better place, with better-educated people? Honestly, no one knows. Since our current education is failing, we need alternatives. If we see positively, it lets students know what is important and we want from them. It is also becoming clearer that people learn and accomplish far more when they are applying concepts to their own areas of