Hi, and welcome to this first video in the course, the educators toolbox. In this course, we're going to examine some of the tools that hopefully can make your education more inspiring, and more engaging, and enable your students to gain the competencies they need to succeed in the 21st century. But before we look at the tools, we have to look at why we need to use the tools. The world is changing and if our students will be able to succeed in a changing world. We need to reevaluate our thoughts about education. We can't educate for world of yesterday, we have to advocate for the world of tomorrow.

The internet and its role in our world today makes it both necessary and possible to make that change. I have a son he's seven years old. And he's very curious. He asks a lot of question and often we search the answers on the net. We couldn't do that before the internet and had to learn from our teachers how the world was put together. Today all the knowledge of the world is easily accessible.

And that means that we have to learn something else. Yesterday, we had to pass on the knowledge the children needed to take the place in the wheel of the industrial society. Now we have have to learn them, how to create a new society. As a society of knowledge, the world is changing and the student have to learn to adapt to a changing society and be able to learn and relearn. In the resources section, I have added some videos for you. The first is a video by Sir Ken Robinson called changing education parenting, and it's about how many school systems will make under the influence of the Industrial Revolution.

And things must have changed since then, or I don't know. The second film is from the organization p 21. Which works to promote new ideas about education. It's called above and beyond, and tells the story about two children who flies above and beyond because they use the foresees a concept we will dig into in the next video. I hope you will enjoy the films and get a new perspective of the changing world. And then I'll see you later.