Our Students – Our Worlds
I just got finished viewing David Warlick’s Our Students – Our Worlds presentation on Slideshare. I hadn’t seen it before, but it runs along the same vein as Did You Know? and other similar thought-provoking presentations and videos. Then I got to wondering – what would happen if teachers actually viewed these? I know there are always going to be the “non-believers” in our midst. Would seeing any of these make a difference. I watch them and think “preaching to the choir.”
I recently ran across a powerful quote (in T.H.E. Journal) – “If we don’t start teaching the way our kids think and play today, we will continue to keep the entire nation behind in developing the innovative, first-to-market, high-tech tools of tomorrow.” (Lisa Wilson, The Mentoring Center) And yet there are still teachers who refuse to incorporate technology in their classes. These teachers rarely check their email, they attend any required training with a bad attitude – you know, the one that says “I am only here because you made me” – the one that will block an open mind.
What can be done about it? What do I do about it?
