PRENSKY CHALLENGE

The purpose in the "Prensky Challenge'" as I see it' is to have us as teachers look to an alternative way of teaching. He poses a 2 part school year, with the essential material being covered in the first. If it is completed, and the standardized tests all passed, then the goal is to have a second semester doing activities that they would do every day anyway- like nintendo, ipods, cell phones, etc.
Is it really an incentive. Possibly. But old school teachers and parents believe that success should be the carrot, and not games, and toys, etc. We sometimes forget to instill this into our children's minds. I am an old school parent, and I try not to play that game. Maybe I am the minority.