As I push through day four of my five day tech class this summer there are a few thoughts that have popped into my often wandering brain.
1) There is a lot of technology in our students lives and I would usually argue that it is far too much.
2) We as educators need to focus on teaching our students how to use technology as a tool that facilitates critical thinking and creation, not just consumption of information.
3) There are people out there who are FAR better at saying what I am thinking than I am. Check out these talks from Sir Ken Robinson and Daniel Pink.
RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms from The RSA on Vimeo.
RSA Animate -- Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us from Daniel Pink on Vimeo.
I really believe that technology can help us answer some of the immense problems that we face as a society. Technology can help with this if we treat it as a tool and use it at its best. We also need to make sure that we are teaching our students to put it away and examine the world without it. Technology should not be our way of life and it has become far to ingrained in our society.
I am going to go outside and eat some lunch.
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