The Importance of Questioning

Norwegian school in its’ current state offers students education from a broad specter of subjects to choose from. Each subject serves its’ own special competencies; however, they all have something in common. Throughout all school courses, the general objective lies within improving and evolving the students. Every day we should obviously be gaining knowledge of our chosen subjects, but that knowledge alone is not always sufficient.

With the Internet having become a meeting place uniting everyone in the world, it has also become the world’s largest knowledge base.  Growing up in the 21^st century, we have had open access to the sources of the Internet for a long time. Generally, neither posting nor reading is restricted, making some sources reliable, and some not. Therefore, believing everything one finds on the Internet is not proper education. The critical mindset is thus of utmost relevance in the current struggle for knowledge, and it should be prioritized. In addition to securing correct education, this direction of learning requires students to think for themselves, encouraging independence, which is a valued trait.

The digital world is in constant development, and we believe that it has become a suitable place for learning English. Our English class is participating in a project with other English classes across the globe. The project is based upon that all the participating classes are sharing the same learning technique: blogging. Unlike traditional English education, The restrictions on what we can write about are not very strict, opening up for endless potential, and we can learn so much from each other. While we are reading English at all times, we are also reading about other students’ interests. Who knows, maybe what we read will intrigue us enough to take actual enjoyment from our reading?