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"That classroom needs new ways of measuring progress, tailored to digital times--rather than to the industrial age or some artsy utopia where everyone gets an awesome for effort." (Heffernan, August 7, 2011).
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I agree with that quote because she says in her article that 65% of students will be working in a job that does not yet exist. (Heffernan, 2011). Also, as we see everyday, new technology is being produced and utilized and we are going farther and farther away from using just standard classroom practices (e.g. writing on the chalkboard) and we are now utilizing the new technology as it comes out and is available. I believe we should move away from the classroom procedures that were used as recent as ten years ago and move towards the digital age so that the children will be more prepared to enter the real world and be able to use the technology that is available to them.
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Heffernan, V. (2011, August 7). Education needs a digital upgrade. Retrieved from http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/07/education-needs-a-digital-age-upgrade/?hp
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This video shows how integrating technology into the classroom helps the students learn and to make them want to learn more. Also, this forces the teachers to learn to utilize the new technology so they can enhance their classroom teaching which helps the students.
Jerome
ReplyDeleteI feel you on moving some of the classroom stuff into more of a digital direction. think of how much money could be saved if in class we used ipads or other kind of tablets instead of buying new books for school every semester, and how much paper would be saved.
I Agree ! ... I believe also that we should start bringing more and more technology in because as the time goes .. technology is getting more and more high tech.
ReplyDeleteJerome you did a really good job with this post. I couldn't agree with you more. I think having technology in the classroom would be very good for the kids. I think it would make them want to learn more because it is something different for them to do instead of always using there books.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with you on this one! I think it is very shocking, which is it totally is, to current teachers how fast the times have changed. This causes a problem of them not realizing they need to evolve with their own education in technology and just because they are finished school does not mean it's time for them to stop learning and developing their own teaching skills for the future.
ReplyDeleteYou make a very valid point in saying that we need to move into this new digital age by allowing our students to experience the new pieces of technology as they become available. The more students are able to see and work with this technology, the more they are at an advantage in their futures when it comes to dealing with the jobs they've never even heard of yet.
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