I Need my Teachers to Learn

[studysync]

Excellent song!  The co-option of technology in our schools is indeed an important inevitability. Thanks for sharing!

[strauchdarren]

interesting video

[karebear7]

I love this... great song! I'm a teacher and I agree completely with your sentiment.

[wiharr]

I teach teachers how to use technology to better support their 21st Century learners. When I stumbled on your original video I used it to get teacher's attention in training. I now see that the orginal has changed to this current version. It is not as impactive as the original.  Please consider putting the orginal one back. It was a better video.

[arcturus1231]

Mr. Honeycut Helps run my school! its TPLC.

[duhtroll]

Ironic that that the younger girl is using a recent laptop and we see several more on the table next to her. Yet the song implies teachers restrict the use of technology?

The boy posting on his blog might be fun but it might as well be on facebook and is probably just as irrelevant to his class work.

-a teacher who lets his students take notes on their phones and/or laptops in class. Technology has its place but should not dominate the room just because it is new. It must also be relevant.

[mochaluv49]

@duhtroll

I hated the implication at the beginning of the song that the girl failed her test bc she couldnt "use her notes from her macbook." What's that about? And he wants to blog during class? Just because things are changing doesnt mean EVERYTHING about the past should be tossed. Care should be taken in how technology is used. It's the people who were educated in this "old-fashioned" way that developed a lot of this technology. How did they do it if the way they were taught was so wrong?

[bardownmanson]

please post lyrics....really helps!

[jdog]

This is a great message. In our district, we try hard not to block anything like Skype and Youtube. We're lucky, because all of our teachers 'get it' when it comes to technology. The school where my kids go, however, is a different story altogether!

As a tech for our district, I can say it's so important for the technology to be there to serve the educators and learners, not the other way around.

[thinkingtom]

This was my Friday video of the week for my fellow teachers

[johnyma22]

Great work :)

[MrJquinn44]

Nice job. It would have been a very powerful ending if the camera had panned in on the little girl looking at her dad on the screen.. and he was a famous person we all recognize.

[bjmcdonald1]

Well said!

[goldy2428]

I have also embedded this on "Sliced Bread" my Australian education blog. Our DET is listening and change is starting, slowly. Well done on the message and the video.

[jatosa]

For us non-Australians: What is DET?

[MrSearlsHistory]

NSW Department of Education and Training.

1:1 laptop initiative well underway now. 220,000 wireless notebooks issed over next 3 years

[jatosa]

And I assume that NSW is New South Wales, or something, and not Narud Stokke Wig, witch was google's first suggestion?

[wfryer]

I wish this video would "go viral" among our school administrators and board members. Great work, Kevin and team. I showed this four times during my sessions today in Moore, Oklahoma, at the Oklahoma A+ Schools statewide conference. Teachers loved it.

[jojosakamoto]

Great job- just wish it was "I want all superintendents to learn." Teachers always get the bad rap- many are trying like hell but getting blocked on a daily basis with filters and old mindsets.

[anonymousintx]

Very well done and thought provoking. There is a definite balance between what we can and should do in schools. Tech Support makes decisions because their job is to protect the network. Teachers make decisions because their job is to teach. Middle ground can and should be found. Seeing both sides as a team rather than Us vs. Them would help tremendously. Thanks for the well done video!!!

[kherbert02]

Great Job - I'm sending this to my co workers. My school district opened a bunch of sites that had been blocked.

[scofire]

Still have never figured out why school districts let Tech Support make academic decisions (like the Skype example). Great song and great video!