My Thoughts about ‘Shift Happens’
What I learned from interviewing veteran teacher Karl Fisch.
With over 5.5 million YouTube hits since its Feb. 7, 2008 debut, Karl Fisch’s “Shift Happens” video raises serious questions about America’s faltering education system.
Fisch has been teaching for over 25 years; he now serves as Director of Technology at Arapahoe High School in Centennial, Colorado. He also runs an education blog, The Fischbowl. As I chat with Fisch, it becomes clear that we share many of the same views on where education is today and where it needs to be headed.
I tell him that I’m worried about the failure of our public education system, and how it’s not preparing kids to succeed in the 21st century. America needs to be cranking-out innovators and critical thinkers, but we continue to place an unhealthy emphasis on rote memorization and regurgitation.
