Now that you have viewed the three videos, what implications do the issues and ideas in these videos have on the following: educational technology, the role of educators, students, and society.
Is there anything particularly striking or surprising in the videos?
The videos make our job as educators seem a little daunting - but also very integral to the success of the next generation. The one thing I appreciated about the videos is that they presented educational technology as a must because children today will need the technology skills to survive in their world. They didn't indicate the necessity of ET based on academic merit - but more on the impact a "digitally illiterate" or "digitally behind" generation could have on North America. Perhaps the benefits of ET need to be seen as preparing future citizens rather than as a way to increase achievement.
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I remember seeing the first video a couple of years ago...and it made an impression on me. The facts are overwhelming...many jobs that exist today did not exist 5 years ago (scary!). Also thinking as educators, we should be preparing students for the future...giving them skills they can use that will help them in their future endeavors/jobs that probably do not exist today.
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All three videos have a very powerful message for society as a whole and more specifically educators. The impact on learning is HUGE! We can not be left in the dark when it comes to technology. It is a vital that we prepare our students for a technological way of life. I would be interested to see a 2011 version of the Shirt Happens video to see the change in statistics in the past five years. Thanks for the great intro to this week's topic DLG 6.
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It is amazing that more money was spent on technology ten years before the video was made. Corporations don't run this way, why does education?
ReplyDeleteIn NB were shown a video like this two years ago (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjJg9NfTXos). They told us to start doing more 21st C teaching but there would be no extra money. We aren't able to use the BYOD method, which would be the only way to possibly achieve this by the way.
It becomes very frustrating to think that people complain about what is not happening in schools, but they don't see the challenges we face.
Ken
Hi all:
ReplyDeleteWhen I see clips like these, which I do enjoy, I cannot help to think they become artifacts of what is happening around us. The first clip spoke of Myspace as being a country, but where is Myspace today? Their lifespan is so short.
As much, I think the education system, as we know it today, will find ways to adapt in more effective manners than what I suspect our generation of students are (generally) experiencing. When it becomes cheaper to buy a $3 Bible app for the Ipad compared to buying a $20 physical Bible, you begin to see the potential. Until we reach a specific price point for universal usage of devices, like above mentioned, we will have a classic teacher - student environment, modified slightly by inclusive eLearning mediums.
Just one man's opinion. :0)
Cheers,
Ryan McKeown
I loved the idea of the children who haven’t had books having a laptop but I wonder what happens when the computer breaks?
ReplyDeleteRole of Educators…well maybe the concept of educator needs to change? I see the world as being educators when I think of the Internet. Maybe we are simply specific educators that cover certain types of material and the rest of the world gives student the rest of what they’re looking for.
Society – when I think of the world in these terms it makes me feel connected to everyone but I also think about all those in remote areas who are not connected and wonder if it’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking in a way that is too privileged…I mean isn’t food and shelter and peace something that needs to come before computers? Or maybe the computers will connect people in a way that we can problem solve to end the hunger and war…
I think the educators need to connect to the world and consider the technology that is happening around us. We can use the technology to our advantage not our disadvanatage…collaborate with the world - connect with other teachers in other districts and in other countries.
Adrienne
I love these videos. I've seen the first two, a few years ago and still they strike again.
ReplyDeleteIt's funny how some know that it should change, but others can't figure it out.
Educational technology should support the teacher in it's classroom and guide him through this process of redesign, retrain and rebuild. We are still using methods from the old days and our students are looking and the next day. How can it be that useful for them?
Educators have to prepare their students for change. It is happening now, and it will happen more often.
One thing amongst other, in the last video, surprised me, but it made sense for the decisions made today. "We spend less on school technology than we did 10 years ago." Wow. It is scary! It is not because the tools are less expensive, I presume...
Why?
Teachers are creative...they will find a way to offer the best to their students... but how long could it take, without the support?
Will our children,... students,... be ready for tomorrow?
The videos were truly insightful. I have seen the first one before but still get that awestruck feeling every time I view one of these. It does show us how woefully lacking our education industry is. For the most part the physical layout of our classrooms still resemble those of yesteryear. My question is, how do we teach students ahead of our time...isn't it sort of a digital immigrant and a digital native dilemma?
ReplyDeleteLike Jaime, I like the slant or focus point of the videos. They do not seek to assert that technology will increase learning/achievement but that it is a crucial element in preparing students for the future and in some way, the future is now!
The videos showed that money is only part of the problem. Reinvent Rethink and Rebuild. How many teachers need training to be able to teach with tech? How much money to we have to support those whom are afraid of tech?
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I really did enjoy those videos but I feel like I have fallen farther behind in the last 20 minutes. It really made me think of what I can do differently but I feel pressure now. Am I doing enough, can I do more? These changes have only happened in the past 15 years!! The changes have really been exponential in their growth and speed. I really feel that we as educators are in an uphill battle to keep up with the changes. I think that our roles have changed more in the past 15 years than at any time in the last century. It seems to me that we may become more of a facilitator than a teacher. I think the real challenge is how we handle the change, or we going to embrace it or fight it?
ReplyDeleteI can't say there was anything striking in the videos, at least from a personal point of view, I'd seen most of them before and live in that ed tech mindspace; however, I do find it striking that the education "system" hasn't held ground, let-alone kept pace. The bureaucrats (dare I say everywhere?) are doing little to better a system that is desperately in need of modernization, perhaps that's because society does little to demand it, but for something so integrally tied to the success of future generations, I'd hope that more would be done to make improvements it the system, rather than simply make it cost less and demand more for less.
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