Why We Need To Teach Technology in School

This video describes why I believe technology is so important in our schools. Technology prepares students for lives in the future. It also engages students. Students expect to be engaged in this way.


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[360dupont]

NOO!!!.The only tie kids use technolgy in school is to play games!.It is worthless

[anderscj]

@360dupont that dependents entirely on the teacher and how engaged students are with real inquiry

[MrWebincome]

Wonderful motivational video clip!! I would also love to embed this video in my website at if you allow me. I am going to forming a information and communication technology (ICT) based school in Bangladesh.

[anderscj]

@MrWebincome Feel free to embed my video anywhere you like. Also feel free to remix, edit, or repurpose it in any way you like.

[spicerer]

Don't understand how this video gets 4 stars - its insipid, uninspiring, boring with platitudes from the equivalent of a sixth grade English essay played to an unsuitable musical score. Too many "We need..." statements and little subtance.

Its substance is quite that of a powerpoint presentation at a beginner level than a worthwhile video on youtube.

[anderscj]

Thank you for your thoughtful feedback. I appreciate your honesty. I also take your comment as a sign that this video must have struck at least enough of a cord with you to provoke a reaction. I too often wonder why it gets so many stars, especially since it was the first video I ever posted to YouTube, one of the first videos I ever put together, and it was created in less than two hours one afternoon.

[74u73hjd]

Do schools kill creativity? If creativity was a person schools would be it's concentration camp! I think that young people are going through a creativity holocaust perpetrated by teachers especially ones who hate their jobs. Everyone who agrees this is a disgusting inconvenient truth give me a thumbs up. BTW I'm only twenty years old and I understand this. But hopefully one day interesting technology will change this.

[FlashToso]

If technology is so great and reduces costs, why do teacher's unions avoid it like the plague if it even hints at reducing jobs? We need to divorce ourselves from the limitations that plague classrooms. Teachers claim a need for smaller classrooms yet entertainment tries to devour every possible opportunity especially mass media.

Educators need to understand the connection between education, knowledge, mass media and internet.

Allow government help to reduce duplication costs of "LOCAL CONTROL".

[trojanthedog]

@anderscj Military instructors spend a lot of time teaching the new troops that weapons are not dangerous, it is the soldier who must be dangerous. The tools are incidental. Same goes for education. Give me a blackboard and a box of chalk and 30 kids who"want" to learn and I will match your technokids talent for talent and then more. There seems to be an inverse ratio related to learning and the amount of stuff associated with it. All that other stuff is just incidental.

[ghy96]

Hey! I live in Korea and today my teacher showed this clip during class<3333

[MrWebincome]

Thank you for allowing me to embed this wonder video clip and sorry for being late to answer you back.

[imretokyo]

I read a book a few years ago. One thing what cached my attention. The difference between data and information. Information is a data what you read(listen, watch, feel), analyze and understand. Otherwise it will be just data. Information technology he he he... and in Hungary we say: the new broom can clean fast, but the old broom knows where the dust is. Technology he he he...

[warlocksv]

I love this vid man !! I am studing to be a teacher and this vid helped to me a lot to performance my topic th ICT Information comunication Technology!! hey thanks man!!!