The articles that I read for my assignment are all about the importance of technology and its uses for education. The terms like "Digital natives" and "digital immigrants" were used in one article to describe the youth and educators respectfully. The technology that has been introduced to the world in the past 10 years is far more adaptable than when I came up through secondary school. We had computers but most of us only knew how to use them for writing papers. Its seems like with the passing time computers have changed in size and functionality. The importance of the schools to integrate more technology or use the technology that they do have more frequently will have a much more successful classroom.
How can we educate a generation of youth that learn on the fly by traditional standards. We cannot make that comparison. There has to be a bridge that connects the two together. We have the tools around us and if we learned more about these resources we could utilize them more for the students to be proactive learners. The time of traditional worksheet learning and lecturing are going away. We can't expect that students will be able to hold their attention to those standards anymore. In my opinion, education needs to continue to evolve. We have to make better choices in regards to technology in the classroom and the amount of technology in the classroom. It is actually simple, if I have a student that hates opening a book but can teach their uncle or grandmother how to search the internet or use their computer we have a serious problem. That student is not incapable of learning. We need to find out how to reach them. Marc Prenske said that some teachers and schools are just stubborn about change. That will continue to put us behind other nations in how we learn. We need to have more options for children to learn. It may surprise us all.
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