School 2.0
“For the first time in history, we’re preparing kids for a future that we cannot clearly describe.”
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I agree that we cannot know what the world will be like in ten years. Technology continues to race forward at a blinding speed. Kids today have the advantage that they were raised with familiarity with technology and they seem to welcome anything new, so that constant changes and updates will be OK with them. I do believe that parents and teachers still must prepare them for the working world and their places in it by stressing that they still must work with many other people, that those people will be very different from them, that they must have a solid work ethic, that all those positive character traits we try to instill in them have an even more important place in society now. Technology seems to connect us more closely, but it keeps us from face to face interaction, and so can have the opposite effect. We still need the people skills.
Posted by on 04/13 at 08:42 AMTechnology continues to advance at an ever increasing rate each day. We, as educators, are asked to utilize technology in our classrooms, yet we often find that we do not have enough time to do this. I definitely agree with Suzanne VanEmburgh in that our students use technology constantly, yet they lack the social skills necessary to compete in today’s society. Education for this has become one more part of a teacher’s job, unfortunately. Yet, if we truly care about preparing our students for the working world, then we have to find a way to incorporate our curriculum, social skills and technology into our classroom instruction every day. In my opinion, too many students do not realize how important it is to be able to communicate people-to-people. They spend hours sitting in front of their computers, listening to their i-pods and “talking” to friends via e-mail, etc. This is not the real world interaction which will become a part of their adult world sooner than they realize.
Posted by on 04/13 at 11:49 AMI think the real world is foggier than the picture. But I think that our own goals can be clearer than that of our parents.
Posted by on 04/13 at 09:45 PMIn August 2005, the Pew Internet & American Life Project came out with results of their survey of teenagers and their use of technology.
Once of their findings: Face-to-face time still beats phone and screen time for teens.
“Even with their great affection for technology, teens still report, on average, spending more time physically with their friends doing social things outside of school than they report interacting with friends through technology. An average youth between ages 12-17 reports spending 10.3 hours a week with friends doing social activities outside of school and about 7.8 hours talking with friends via technology like the telephone, email, IM ortext messaging.”
Do you think this is still accurate, almost two years later? Or have teen habits changed that drastically?
Posted by on 04/15 at 03:54 PM
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