In class we watched 3 videos that relate to education in the past, present, and future and how students handle the situation.
Here’s the video that I liked the most.
The first video shows a speech about creativity and the way students in the past had to drop artistic talents in order to become someone in life.
Today if you’re deeply passionate about art, or being creative, you can actually become the best in creativity in every aspect and still get a lot of money and do what you do best.
Choices in life mean a lot more than you’d think… and the fact we have the ability to make choices, it just shows how much we control in our lives.
The second video is about technology in the 21st century and the way students like me get bored at school because our teachers teach like a 20th century style. On the video we can see the way students are trying to speak up about the situation we are living and at the same time we are growing with technology.
A student in the 20th century had to memorize facts, they are passive learners.
The lessons were focused on the lower level of Bloom’s Taxonomy: knowledge, comprehension and application. The literacy is focused on reading, writing and math.
A student in the 21st century already know facts, they are active learners.
Learning is designed on upper levels of Blooms’ Taxonomy: synthesis, analysis and evaluation. The literacy is focused on the real world virtual reading, typing, and calculators.
The school boards need to change and update the lesson plans for the schools so the children can learn the basics and keep growing with technology.
The third video is also about the desperation of the students with old-school schools. We need an upgrade in school lessons too!!
There are children nowadays, who speak other languages thanks to the TV cartoons like Dora the Explorer, Ni Hao, Kai-lan, the Chinese Dora. Pre-K students with a stabled income are knowledgeable of many things; the only thing they cannot do is to write. Pre-K teachers have the 20th century lesson plans, therefore the children are just wasting time at school, and they learn better things and innovative lessons while watching TV.
Children also learn different cultures while watching a TV show.
Teenagers in the 21st century pay too much interest in video games, instead of school spelling. They have a lot of knowledge but everything they see is virtual. Like in Facebook, there is a game called Farmville, they know how to harvest and get money from a farm, it is really easy for them to move a finger and it’s all done.
Young adults are growing the same way, we’re growing with technology and some subjects at school are getting useless like a generalist teacher, the program is all about pedagogy and the way a classroom should be setup. The required books are from 1995 where classrooms were in a school. We are looking and expecting to grow and learn to become teachers in a virtual world with subjects that are useful in the real world, and not only for one country since we are growing fast and the world is becoming one.
Students today are begging teachers to update their lessons, teachers as well need to teach students for their future not for the teacher’s past.
