Mr. Winkle Wakes

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Rip Van Winkle awakes after one hundred years and visits a school...

Created as a conversation starter for professional development on the use of educational technology.

An amusing, animated retelling of the popular education story about the need for twenty-first century skills to be taught in schools.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• education
• K-12
• technology
• schools
• Students
• Vision
• Technology
• Professional
• Development
• staff
• 21st
• century
• learning

[TruckeeTeacher]

Video makes you think....now we just need to make sure we fund the technology needed at our schools to allow for this type of collaborative/web 2.0 learning opportunities and provide training for the teachers like corporations do. I teach this kind of stuff at my high school so everyone needs to know.....many schools are integrating these new technologies and learning modalities today. If you think school is just like it was a 100 years ago; you need to make a visit down to your local school.

[lifelonglearners]

@TruckeeTeacher I'm a classroom teacher so I visit the local school every day of the school week. As satire, the movie does rely on hyperbole to make its point but I would stand behind its assertion that the structure of schools has not changed much.

I agree on your point about the importance of teacher training and am glad to hear interesting things are happening in your classroom.

[MassielMaite]

Can you believe I found this link from a book? I rarely use books, but this week doing research on where school are at with taking up technology I just had to find this brilliant reminder of where do we want from our schools today and for tommorrow. Cheers!

[lifelonglearners]

@MassielMaite What book referred you to this video? 

[MassielMaite]

@lifelonglearners

Hi there fabulous long learners. The book is called "Schools and the digit technology: An Overview. It is in Chapter 3, by author Mal Lee addresing the topic of "Schools and the digital technology". The reference is on page 40 and is sited as "Mr Winkle Awakes" (it should be wakes). Book is published by Acer Press and the date is 2010. So it's current! BTW I'm doing research on Mobile Technology and it's effective use in rural education. In case you want to get in touch.

[lifelonglearners]

@MassielMaite Thanks for the info.

[courosa]

This is excellent Matthew! Thanks so much will be using this a lot of the future. Cheers.

[xguy2]

great video Mathew!

[HomeEducatingFathers]

K12 education was never designed to be what most people think and expect it to be. This video is great, making people think. Thank you.

[lmyring]

HI Mathew, Great video! It definitely rings true from my experience. One thing education is known for is resisting innovation and especially technology. I like the way you did your credits. I'm familiar with Creative Commons, but some of the other source lists and requirements for reuse are somewhat new to me. Linda

[TruckeeTeacher]

@lifelonglearners You can find out more about these topics on my blog "The Modern Educator" which can be found on Google Blog search. It is made with Blogger.

[TruckeeTeacher]

@lifelonglearners Agree...more change is still necessary and blogs like yours will hopefully help to get educators, administrators, and parents thinking more about this by joining in the conversation which will hopefully lead to positive change. Good day!

[aautrey1988]

I think that this is a very creative clip. I enjoyed knowing that out of all the things in the world that have change, the education not which is the most important have not. I think that its education practices should change often to keep up with this modern technology world. That goes to show why the united State doesn't rank highest then all the other country in the world when it comes to academics.

I think that this clip have show that we really need a change as far as education.

[MassielMaite]

@MrTimothyevan - Whoops I must have miss read Scott's comments thinking he approved the video. I like the satirical video, I've been led to this by a journal. You are right to point out that classrooms have not changed fast enough, unlike other industries. I'm researching mobile technology and it's effective use in rural education. Hope you're having a great week. Cheers.