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Learning to Change Changing to Learn Advancing K-12 Technology Leadership, Consortium for School Networking(COSN) Video

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[tbodle]

All true what they say. But there are some 20th century skills we probably don't want to lose (handwriting, doing math without a calculator, basic understanding of how to structure a sentence, spelling, etc.) I have to laugh too when we talk about schools being behind the technology curve. Most freshmen at the high school where I teach are more skilled using a computer than a majority of our faculty. What teachers need is more paid time to collaborate and update their skills. Never enough time!

[MoonEnquirerIsAChimp]

pammyoneto:

Here's a couple of points:

5. Any half decent parent would take their child to museums, galleries, exhibitions. Most are free and they are in abundance. You'd be amazed at how many children don't even have a library card or have got into the habit of reading. Yet have televisions, computers, playstations, mobile phones and internet access, eat not at a dining table but on watching the television.

[misheliis87]

school have become obsolete!! 

[jaycolliermedia]

Please include a link to background on this video! Speakers, producer's agenda, organization, etc.

[ellamaemarcus]

Another soundbite video telling me what "it's about". You want to know what it's about? I'll tell you -- it's about money, ie the lack thereof. Show me how to procure a class set of ipods at $250 a pop, and I'll make sure my students get the best possible use out of them. Otherwise, stop preaching to me as though I'm the problem.

[ogicabp4u]

@mjschube23 true...listen to Sir Ken Robinson...and he has a PhD in Education and he agrees. See him on TED.

[mjschube23]

My point is that nobody paid the children to learn technology skills.

Educators are holding the students back!

[lassielaughs]

It makes me sad and distressed to see so many negative replies on what is a very positive video. At no point i did I hear one educator suggest that we should not help students learn to read or write, or to learn Math, and yet that seems to be the fear. As an adult, a mother and a teacher I know that my own child and all the children in my classroom learn faster than I do, I strive to have at least a basic understanding of the technology they encounter on a daily basis but often they teach me!

[daddyslackful]

I don't mean to be pragmatic but all the nylon-string backed rhetoric in the world won't change education. What is the role of parents? Do they expect a "school as a factory" situation? If they don't, then they must take a hugely more active role in their child's learning.

Why have ministries of education? What are they measuring, who is it for and what is the purpose? It is rarely for the benefit of the individual student as a learner.