Una’s Blog

I just read Sunny’s blog post A Vision of K-12 Students Today about a video she found. I found it thought provoking and very moving.

In the middle of the video, the students hold up a number of signs asking how different forms of technology (ipod, camera, laptop etc) could help them learn. I think this is a clear challenge to teachers to think beyond the obvious. It is our challenge, our job, to develop with the techonology, and enable our students to use all the tools they have available to them. Especially the ones that they are most interested in, and that are going to become ever more important in the future. The students are asking to be taught to think, create, analyse, evaluate, and apply. The internet is the perfect tool with which to learn all of these skills, with the right training, programs, and i believe, the right philosophy. Fundamentally, the students are asking to be engaged.