2201 Double Journal #1 "Education Needs a Digital-Age Upgrade"

Quote


   "A classroom suited to today’s students should deemphasize solitary piecework. It should facilitate the kind of collaboration that helps individuals compensate for their blindnesses, instead of cultivating them. That classroom needs new ways of measuring progress, tailored to digital times — rather than to the industrial age or to some artsy utopia where everyone gets an Awesome for effort (Heffernan 2011."


Response


   I chose this quote because I totally agree with what she is saying. The world is constantly changing and to survive in it we must change along with it. By not changing the old way of educating our children are we  truly preparing them for the world in which they live in today. The old way of educating worked for that generation but it is failing this more technological generation. I am not saying that all of the old ways are bad just that they need to be upgraded to fit the reality of what is happening now. One of the biggest problems in today's educational field is that because a lot of the teacher themselves grew up doing things a certain way they themselves don't understand how to use the new technology and sadly most of them just don't want to learn and prefer to do things the old basic way. I feel because of this that they are failing to prepare their students for the real world. What I feel we need to do is not just educate the students but also the teachers.


   This video gives a lot of reasons why technology need to be in the classroom.
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Sources


Heffernan, V. (2011, August 07). Education needs a digital upgrade. The New York Times. Retrieved from http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/07/education-needs-a-digital-age-upgrade/


amplivoxsound. (2011,October 31) Top 10 reasons to use technology in education: iPad, tablet, computer,listening centers -YouTube. YouTube-Broadcast Yourself. Retrieved January 22, 2012, from http:www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzi2RIt8_nk