Video link to Digital Aristotle

A lovely video on the importance of technology in changing education, with some amusing analogies.

Video Response to Learning to Change, Change to Learn

The video highlighted the ever increasing need for technology implementation in classrooms and school settings. Education institutions, for the most part, are very much stuck in relatively ancient ways of thinking and teaching when it comes to 21st century skills. One of the speakers referred to school classrooms and learning environments 'as students and teachers living inside four brick walls'. I tend to agree with her, that schools are far behind the technical advances that we have. Students are spending more and more time on social networking sites, on the computer and cell phones, yet schools do not make the most of this huge community opportunity. Now is the time to start using the technology we have to create more learning methods, 24-hour access to teaching tools and make our students ALL active, engaged learners. On a final note, education behind coal-mining in IT intensiveness? That is scary, it's certainly time to change.

Video Response

Video Response 

Learning to Change, Changing to Learn
The video shows the ever-increasing need to introduce more technology into teaching. Students are spending more and more time on the internet, social-networking sites and communicating outside of school in the harsh comparison to inside school. The current implementation in schools is shockingly low and most outdated, compared to other sectors of society. One of the interviewees referred teaching as simply 'a classroom setting instead of a community' where they are not up to speed with the latest developments and are over-reliant on standardized testing and right or wrong answers.

Instead the video urges people, especially educators, to realize the importance of taking learning into the 21st century and the increasing need for such advancements. As mentioned, it starts with teachers and their enthusiasm for change in the classroom. I fully agree with what the video supports and the notion that we need to make changes for better learning.

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