A Vision of K-12 Students Today
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A-ZVCjfWf8&NR=1
As a follow up to the college student perspective on their educational needs, here is a K-12 perspective. The author had a bibliography at the end of the video which I found different. It was good to see how the writer/producer, B. Nelson, gave credit for the subject matter. A good lesson for me!
These younger students follow the same technology use as college students with iPods, texting with phones, blogs. They seem to yearn for the same, engaging assignments which use technology. To truly make it meaningful education is important to the children. There was additional statistics on the teacher's ability to use technology and their need for further training. This summary of the inability of the teaching staff to use and be comfortable with technology is what I figured it would be from my own experience. Since I've had this job with PBS, and found out all of the educational resources through technology, I've been on a mission of getting out this information to teachers because I know I didn't receive it while teaching. I am going to follow my goal of validating the use of technology in the classroom as well as what are the roadblocks for teachers with these new tools.
The bibliography has given me further sources to check out for this blog. If anyone has tips on searching the library research sources, let me know!
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ReplyDeleteWhile I am fully in support of effective implementation of technology into the classroom and curriculum, I had a problem with the suggestion the video makes that education cannot be engaging without the incorporation of technology.
ReplyDeleteI also think it is slightly amusing that the first half the video is about how teachers aren't letting their students create something and it is obviously the same adult wrote the text on all the white boards.
I personally think the Did You Know Web 2.0 video does a better job of sharing the information without the dramatics.(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMcfrLYDm2U)