three videos

Three Videos Essay:


I enjoyed all three videos but especially the Sir Robinson video. He has an interesting sense of humor. His stories were both entertaining and educational. It seems to me that today we seem to have a condition for everything and a drug to cure it. Maybe if we spent a little more time, as the doctor in Robinson’s video did, maybe we would find that most children don’t actually have a problem but instead just don’t fit into the mold that our education system has created for them. I taught in the discipline center where I live for a year and found that most of the kids that are sent there are actually not bad kids. They are just treated like bad kids so that’s how they act. The same thing can be said about kids who are labeled as having a learning disability. If they are treated like they are dumb, they will act dumb. I think our education system is so rigid that we cannot accommodate those kids that learn differently. This is what we need to change. The use of technology is one solution to this problem. Kids today are enveloped in technology. Facebook, texting, email, the internet, are all daily routines for them. Today’s technology enables us to accommodate all of the different ways of learning. In the video A vision of Students Today by Michael Wesch the students pointed out how much time they spend using technology every day. Our classrooms need to take advantage of these things to optimize the students learning opportunities. One example would be utilizing short video clips in the classroom. Students are used to sites like Youtube and getting their information in short chunks. If we used these in the classroom we could also make them available through podcasts etc. and the students could download them to their cell phones. This is only one example of the many ways we can utilize these new technologies. Technology is constantly changing as the video Web 2.0 points out. The internet is no longer static. Text, video, graphics are all dynamic. They change to fit the users’ access. Our classrooms need to be just as dynamic. We need to create curriculum that can change with the students’ needs as well as the changing technology. The future of the classroom is exciting and I can’t wait to see what’s next.

Works Cited
Technology, L. 3. (n.d.). LTEC 3440 Intro to Instructional Technology . Retrieved from LTEC 3440 Intro to Instructional Technology : http://ltec3440.blogspot.com/