Reading through Will Richardson’s blog really made me think about where technology is taking education to the children today. He has wonderful ideas how this can be brought to all of our teacher’s and schools in this lifetime.
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His ideas on crowdsourcing to serve as a conversation starter for schools to tackle questions that arise in the planning for the change process. That would be a great asset to many of us that are not up on all of the technology that can be very overwhelming. I’m sure finding that out being in this class. I like the phrase that he said was used in this conference “Stop complaining. Be the change. Love your students and do well by them. If that includes technology so be it”. Okay I’m getting it now!
No ChoiceI agree on what he says that the teaching technology will be a huge part of children’s learning lives in the classroom and outside of the classroom. It’s true if you look around you every child has some device of technology in their hands wherever they are. The report from the Kaiser Foundation states that children from 8-18 years of age devote an average of 7 ½ hours a day to using entertainment media and in that time they are multi tasking using more than one medium at a time because of that they are actually learning while they are exploring the media content. They are immersed at least 10 hours and 45 minutes worth of media in those 7 ½ hours. That’s a great effect on the way they see the world and how they learn from the media. The ages they did the research on from 8-18 could of included even the younger ages. I gave to my 2 year old grandson a great learning tool that you connect to the T.V. and when I went to visit, he was showing me how to do it. I have to get him the next level because he’s ready. I agree to a point what Will Richardson comments about most schools are making a bad choice by not immersing their students into these on line learning environments if it is the reason of not willing to change. But, with the lack of funding for the schools that definitely has an impact on the willingness for schools to make that change
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I think it's great that you're in this class and not afraid to jump into this new world of technology. I really try to encourage people new to these tools to not worry, "You wont' suck at it!"
ReplyDeleteAlso, I think it's important to remember no matter how many programs or web tools one uses everyone is learning - even really experienced tech geeks, because they're always exploring new stuff, get frustrated, have a learning curve, and have to "google it" etc. That frustration, the feeling of ineptness is just something that happens so frequently in the beginning - it's more painful. As you continue to explore your experiences will remind you it's just a temporary hiccup and in the end you'll be successful.
On a bright note, it's fabulous fun to learn from an eight-year-old!