Saturday, June 22, 2013

Activity #3 - Today Isn't Yesterday, So Why Do We Teach Like It Is?

Here's a video that speaks right to the idea as to why teaching must  hange in order to meet learners needs. I love this video and think Sir Ken Robinson hits the nail on the head 2ith this TED Talk. Enjoy!
This is the URL if the link above doesn't work:
http://goo.gl/o9IaB

Thoughts on Web 2.0 from Activity #2

(Note: This post is a bit short and probably error-filled due to typing on a tablet keyboard on an uncomfortable hospital seat wIting for Palmberg Baby #3. Quality and clarity of thoughts should not be judged based on this or any other post in the next few days)

I think of today's learners as being more "community" learners than "digital" learners, but I suppose that is justme being overly semantic.  Kids have always been social, but we have never really focused on that aspect of childhood when it came to teaching. However, the world now operates in a much more social realm, so it would make sense for the education community to start moving - quickley - that direction. If the World Wide Web is truely a web of people as Tim Berners-Lee suggests, then in order for it to be truely social, it must be a two-way street with people consuming AND producing content.

Ideas grow bigger and faster when more thinkers are involved and the version 2.0 of the WWW is the way to connect the  inds of those thinkers.