Friday, October 28, 2011

If these walls could talk, what would they say?

The arguments in this video ring out loud and clear. Students today are too adapted to the new technologies that are present in their every day life, that the traditional way of learning, i.e. sitting still at a desk, watching linear ideas presented on a board, listening to one voice (not actively taking part in the learning process), etc., just does not cut it anymore. Students growing up in today's society have almost been trained to be able to process many concepts and activities at a time, they have no choice. When they are forced to sit in a chair and watch word after word be written on the black board, whiteboard, whatever board, they are inevitably goning to wander somewhere else. They are going to see the technology in front of them and have that appetite for social networking, any other typical procrastination site, or do anything else! This video shows that if we can learn to incorporate more active learning involving the technologies which we've already adapted, students would finally receive the 21st century education for which they are putting their lives in debt. It clearly lists all of the negative aspects of the learning style still present today in order to grab the support and agreement of others.

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