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The video was very dry and I wouldn’t have survived this lecture if I had to attend. It seemed to be more geared for teaching more at the college level than k-12. There were some good concepts and points that would apply to K-12 grade level. The piece that I thought was very strong and meaningful was about the teaching environment of today being out of date and that our student are not learning to learn or excel, but to learn what they need too for the class. Students are not learning and going to that next level of exploring and using this information. That is a big problem in education with children doing the bare minimum to pass and not fully exploring, learning, and working with the subject matter. They are learning just enough to pass and limiting their learning by doing so.
Young students need to be given the technology (sites and tools) and letting them explore the new technology and work with it to help improve their lives. Students love technology. Web 2.0 tools such as google doc or flip board can help these students organize so much of their online activities, so they are not so spread out and have to open millions of windows to get all their info. Then also using skype, blogs, and wikki to bring all students together to present class ideas and the speed and easy these tools bring to collaborative learning. Teachers themselves should be using these tools. We are currently working with our social studies and science curriculum and I am looking into setting up grade level wikkis to have the teachers use the wikki to set up the curriculum and resource to be taught, so every grade level and teacher are able to see this curriculum and develop it.
" The piece that I thought was very strong and meaningful was about the teaching environment of today being out of date and that our student are not learning to learn or excel, but to learn what they need too for the class. Students are not learning and going to that next level of exploring and using this information. That is a big problem in education with children doing the bare minimum to pass and not fully exploring, learning, and working with the subject matter. They are learning just enough to pass and limiting their learning by doing so.
ReplyDelete" Do you experience this as early as the elementary age? I know I experience this in middle school and I know it is happening in high school, but it would be sad to me to think kids are only working towards the grades rather than for the love of learning. Maybe once they get a bit older like 5th grade when they tie grades to positive reinforcement from home, but I wonder about the younger years? It makes me think of another post I read about grading, what do you think? Grades don't mean a thing