Sunday, October 12, 2008
Ian Jukes interview
Wow! Ian definitely is making me rethink how we should be teaching our students. I see how students react to teacher instruction compared to digital instruction and how they want more of the latter. It seems to be the students like the "screen" version more. The digital bombardment is so true nowadays that these students grow up in. It's amazing the things they know that comes from digitalization but are so lacking in the little things like manners, organization and being able to handle being in a group setting and participating orally without blurting outloud. I am definitely all for digital learning but that sometimes comes with a price if we don't still teach the little things also. High school kids have such a problem not being able to text during supper or during a concert or during a school day in class. Even adults are getting worse about answering their cellphone when they're engaged in a conversation with another person. I want to see children learn everything they can but it has to be done in the right way. Ian talks about how the brain learns now compared to back then and has a good point about the new way of teaching. I want what's best for the student and what will make that student a great learner and respectable citizen.
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Doesn't it make your brain hurt to think about how to keep the students engaged. I just read a blog about a PLN, and maybe that is how we can do it??? There has to be an easier way.
Just like everything else, I guess we have to TEACH etiquette when it comes to the new technologies! Multitasking - texting while having a real-life conversation, chatting on the computer while 'listening' to someone else - comes across as rude! I do NOT like to be the person on the receiving end. I hope I don't come across that way. I will try to be more mindful of that!
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