We haven't been meeting the students where they are. Despite our knowing how connected this generation is to technology, we've come to rely on our old education paradigm. We need to access more the technology that our students have embrace.
Both you and Dr. De Leon have been trying to convince a few of us holdovers of why technology is so important for our student population to access education on a level playing field as their wealthier peers. The change is not a swift one, and that worries some. We just need to be patient and wait for the miracle to happen. It's indeed evolving that way, but evolution is a slow process. The secret is how to kickstart that evolutionary process.
I'll scratch my head for a while on that question.
If we move forward to slowly incorporate technology in the classroom, the students will better embrace it for education rather than simply entertainment. In fact, I believe the line between education and entertainment will slim greatly given this strategy.
This video is inspiring in that it shows the revolution of how students can and, if taught the proper procedures or technological necessities, ultimately (want to) learn. This video however does not show support with regard to the shift in teacher strategies enough because it highlights a very limited cross-section of students and is very dependent on "outside entities" as a source for learning and inspiration. We are limited in this manner as of now.
We haven't been meeting the students where they are. Despite our knowing how connected this generation is to technology, we've come to rely on our old education paradigm. We need to access more the technology that our students have embrace.
ReplyDeleteBoth you and Dr. De Leon have been trying to convince a few of us holdovers of why technology is so important for our student population to access education on a level playing field as their wealthier peers. The change is not a swift one, and that worries some. We just need to be patient and wait for the miracle to happen. It's indeed evolving that way, but evolution is a slow process. The secret is how to kickstart that evolutionary process.
I'll scratch my head for a while on that question.
If we move forward to slowly incorporate technology in the classroom, the students will better embrace it for education rather than simply entertainment. In fact, I believe the line between education and entertainment will slim greatly given this strategy.
Jeremy Hende
Namaste
This video is inspiring in that it shows the revolution of how students can and, if taught the proper procedures or technological necessities, ultimately (want to) learn. This video however does not show support with regard to the shift in teacher strategies enough because it highlights a very limited cross-section of students and is very dependent on "outside entities" as a source for learning and inspiration. We are limited in this manner as of now.
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