A Vision of K-12 Students Today

This project was created to inspire teachers to use technology in engaging ways to help students develop higher level thinking skills. Equally important, it serves to motivate district level leaders to provide teachers with the tools and training to do so.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Education
• Students
• Vision
• Technology
• Professional
• Development
• School

[vzteacher]

This video just pisses me off. As a teacher, I would absolutely LOVE to have the technology mentioned in the video. You assume that it's the teacher that have no passion for technology or desire to use it, and that is a load of crap! I'm sick and tired of people blaming teacher for every frickin' thing that is wrong with the educational system. I have asked MANY times to get laptops in my room, a Smart Board, digital cameras, professional development to learn how to implement them.

[amplivoxsound]

What is it like being a teacher? It is being a teacher, a guidance counselor, a policeman, a detective, a judge, a nurse, and a bookkeeper all at one time. It is both exhilarating and frustrating; it is both exalting and humiliating…Give me a classroom with its you-never-know-what-to-expect atmosphere. –Blackboard Bulletin

[frongjumping]

Educational technology is great... if you can actually manage to get some of it in your classroom. There will always be the haves and the have-nots when it comes to funding, and the latter group gets stuck having to do more with less. Besides, if a kid has no support at home, all the classroom technology in the world won't fix his problems. Outside of the teachers themselves, parents are still the #1 determining factor in academic success.

[Disig]

@vzteacher You're taking out your frustration and anger on the wrong people. If you know the value of technology in the classroom, then this video is not talking to you. If you are unable to get it into your classroom, then it is something the school board needs to discuss and realize.  It's not saying it's your fault.

[TheJickmaster]

K-12 means longer education and precise knowledge right? What if kids don't study and repeats/kicks-out/suspends/ in school? More payments and tuition for parents? idk.

[Jendibah]

@vzteacher I agree. It would be great to use technology...if it were available. This shouldn't be targeted at teachers, but at government offices who cut our budgets, school boards who spend our money on the new high school football field, etc.

On the other hand, I know several teachers who would never use technology no matter how accessible it was. And I don't believe it to be the answer to our educational problems. The biggest problem is that parents and students don't care anymore.

[jamilahbatteh]

@vzteacher As I was watching this video, my blood seriously started boiling. I am so glad someone shares my feelings. If maybe we could actually be given these resources, then I would be happy to infuse them into my planning. Otherwise, PAY ME MORE and I will buy stuff- but neither of those are a priority, so til then.....

[karllieb]

Great. Most of the time when I brought tech into the classroom, they spent time playing with the bells and whistles rather than improving their learning. Do kids read and write better today compared to kids 20 or 40 years ago, despite all this technology? This is mostly tripe. Do you expect the ed establishment (the adults) who watch students walk down the street while texting their friends on their way to play video games, etc. to believe that this is some magic bullet?lol ...rofl....

[karifrid]

I am a teacher.Let´s start to teach them to read.....I feel a great difference in 20 years.Kids read less and can not sing from a book when I play piano.....

[1965Numbersman]

Try this - we want people who can create advanced computers, cell phones, and medicines. The people who succeed in these areas really have the basics under control (math, language, biology, physics, chemistry, etc) so they have the freedom to think. If you don't have those basics under control then create thinking and problem solving are going to be difficult.

[1965Numbersman]

People want teachers to teach students to learn how to think. But when you have no basis to think from you begin to sound really stupid. Think of those people who have tried to have a discussion with you about something they had no idea about.

[Daeven1]

Governments continually cut funding to education, and when this happens the only thing people complain about is teacher salaries - displaying openly that education is not important to us. Then well-educated immigrants get good jobs, because their families and countries value education, and people complain about foreigners taking jobs. As a society we value corporations over children, as shown by our government and public actions.