Will and Friedman

I found Will’s blog post about Friedman very interesting. Maybe because we are reading The World is Flat in class, but I really liked the idea that “Green is the new red, white and blue.” In this blog post, Will quotes Friedman’s article. He says:

“How do our kids compete in a flatter world? How do they thrive in a warmer world? How do they survive in a more dangerous world? Those are, in a nutshell, the big questions facing America at the dawn of the 21st century. But these problems are so large in scale that they can only be effectively addressed by an America with 50 green states — not an America divided between red and blue states.”

In this quotation, Friedman is saying that future generations will only be able to combat the world’s problems if they are able to change with the flatworld. Furthermore, Will states, “And, this is a moment of serious challenge to our traditional ways of thinking about consumption and our use of the planet’s natural resources, just like it’s a moment of serious challenge to our traditional ways of education.”

I feel that this blog post illustrates that we must steer our students to think about how they can use technology to improve the future.