CC-NC-SA video by mwesh
I was shown this video in my one of my Teacher Education courses on technology. I was so blown away by this that I shared it with my family. I got in a discussion with my Dad about technology and what it is doing to our students today. It has definitely changed the way children are living their lives, but what isn't constantly changing? My Dad was anti-technology in the classroom when we had this discussion, but I brought up the fact that how he was raised and how I was raised is very different and I didn't have much technology compared to students now. I see that students these days are looking for fast ways to obtain information. They are used to the fast paced lifestyle many of us have grown accustomed to. But that is the reality of life today. We have to keep things constantly changing and updating because so much of our future depends on it. With the way technology is advancing, these students we will be teaching will be working with technology that is not even out yet. We must prepare them for jobs that do not exist today, because our world is moving at a quick pace. So I ask you this question, is using as much technology as possible in our classrooms a bad thing when many of these students are guaranteed to be working with some aspect of it in their future? Why not prepare them now so that they are the best they can be in the following years?
I love this vedio I have seen it in a few different of my classes. I have to say that what shocks me most about it is the number of hours spent of each form of technology. I believe that we do have an obligation to our students to introduce them to the beneficial technology but that we also have an obligation to not overload them with it all at once. Overall though we do have to prepare them to use items that arn't even invented right now and for jobs that arn't even named right now. So, we do need to use technology in the classroom so students can adapt to it when they are on their own.
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