After viewing this video, I think that as educators
we need to step into the 21st century and adapt our instruction to
the rapidly changing technologies that are available to our students and us. We are standing behind the “old ways” of
doing things and need to innovate our instruction to incorporate the use of
technology to teach our students. They
live in an information age where vast amounts of information are at their
fingertips, and we need to teach them how to access such information and guide
their own self-directed learning. Students
need to be taught how to think for themselves and synthesize their own ideas
about what they are learning. However, how this is done I simply do not know.
I think this is done by showing them creative ways to use the technology. Many student may know about youtube, but may not have thought to use it for school. So I think the best thing we as teachers can do is to learn how to use all this new technology and figure out ways it can be useful in a school setting.
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