Powered down students
I am most intrigued by the thougth of students "powering down" to come to school. This should truly cause educators to take a long hard look at how we are teaching today's students. My own children, ages 8, 6, and 4 are all intuitive digital learners. Hand them an ipod and they can find anything quickly without your help. Leave your iphone unattended and watch out. Avatars, downloading, digital cameras and video are all standard to my own young learners. Students today are capable of high levels of work utilizing every technology that is available to them. They can be great facilitors of technology knowledge to teachers if only allowed to do so. We must change the mindset of how we use to teach. The industrial age students are long gone. In fact they have been transformed themselves into digital immigrants. Let's Power UP!!
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This is true. My own 10 year old who hates school, but loves the computer world is very "gadget" oriented. She too is great with technology of all sorts. The only drawback I can see, is what happens if technology fails. I have high school students who dont know how to use a dictionary or table of contents. Using technology is great, but it is certainly not all there is. When a student has a book in front of them, and can't scan the table of contents to find a chapter in the book, and narrow down the topics in that chapter, but they can go to a computer and find what they need, there is something wrong. I don't believe we should get completely away from books, and the actual written word. Can you tell I am a lover of books? There is just something different and more personal about sitting in the rocking chair on the front porch and reading a good book.
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