Engage Me!

Pupils from Robin Hood primary school, Birmingham, worked with a film crew from the National College for School Leadership to express their desire to use their favourite technologies for learning in school.
Also posted on the NCSL Future website - http://future.ncsl.org.uk
Robin Hood primary school has a YouTube channel at http://uk.youtube.com/user/RobinHoodS...

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[agent4changenet]

Just to make it clear, this is a video made by young learners in a primary school in Birmingham, UK. Teachers helped them produce it but it is the children's own work and the opinions are theirs.

The simple points they make concern their desire for schools to allow them to use technology they find useful elsewhere in their lives. They feel it would be useful for their learning too.

[PortGSchool]

I think the point is that we engage students with technology. We don't teach technology. Some of you have missed the point. The video very clearly states the need to teach students to think and use technology to make school more relevant. Technology can be a useful communication tool. It is not useful when students sit mindlessly in front of a screen playing shooting games. As with anything, technology can be used for good or evil. Let's use it for good.

[Steve Padget]

This is worth 2:40 of anyone's time. The massages are simple - independent learning and thinking increases motivation. Children have too many hidden talents that many schools keep hidden and are incapable of tapping into. Creative learning is real learning, it's not an option.

[jatoferfi]

kids everywhere seem to be way ahead of the adults who teach them when it comes to the tech world. I learn everyday from my 3 grandsons, and I'm pretty tech savvy myself. My youngest is going to grow up having no concept of a land line phone, that you only use a cell phone for phone calls, and that a computer needs to sit on a desk and be plugged in to a monitor and processor. He just grabs the closest tablet or phone and does his thing at age 3!

[Lala Jaber]

this is a pretty cool video, me and a group of other student have to make something similar for a club at my school (clubASU) can't wait!

[SoiLX]

this is sick (positive connotations sick)

[jessica francia]

nice

[Mary-Beth Taylor]

Can I use this in a presentation for a community college and e-portfolio's Thank you.

[tryingtosavemymom]

I am a teacher in the U.S. I applaud your efforts. I wish my students were as motivated and driven as all of you seem to be. Unfortunately, the vast majority of my students lack such qualities and I find that as generations continue along, the desire to explore, create, interpret, explain, and most importantly work hard to acheive has diminished. Most seek the easy way out, do not wish to be guided, and are content with everyone doing things for them. Your video and you give me hope. Thank you!