Connected Classroom

This was great! We need more inspiring clips like this. Please post any others that you do!

Interesting factoids.

sorry i misspelled some words i was pretty angry after i watched this and read the gushing comments

because they have convinced their students that they will have a better future if they work hard and study hard. many american kids are too interested in the fun life to buckle down and study/work hard. that is caused by the media and portrayals of popular culture as being cool. i still don't understand this video and why every commentor on here thinks it is so great. we need a paradiagm shift for the kids and maybe for the teachers also...

I was not impressed. what is the point of this video? to inspire teachers? how did the usa become sucha great country if we had such lousy classrooms back then. technology is not the answer, it's attitude and aptitude. that is why japan kicked our ass in the pass and they are still kicking it in the auto industry, and china and india are killing us know.

I believe that active, engaged, constructivist learning will lead to active, engaged students and people. There is an old John Dewey quote "If we teach today's students as we taught yesterday's, we rob them of tomorrow."

I didn't create this to be impressive or inspiring. I made a video for a state conference. I posted it here so it was easily available for my presentation. Less than a year later it has had over 15, 000 hits and as many on teacher tube and THAT is the point. WE live in a global society. Information is so easily accessible. The resources provided with this video give ways to use technology to create rigorous, relevant learning experience for kids. I encourage those viewing to use them.

We are at a place where our culture is different, our world is changing...good thing? perhaps not, but things won't change unless there is more pressure TO change than there is resistance to change. I wanted to put some facts out there that might put some of that pressure on.

All entitled to our opinions, but I think our arguments are the same. We need a paradigm shift. Classrooms were not lousy long ago, just DIFFERENT. We became a great country because at the turn of the century we men like Dewey saying what I was saying with this video.

The problem with the idea that "technology is the answer" is that you can have the exact same scene as a 1900's classroom, except put computers infront of them and have them all watching a video of a teacher - no new approach, only a new medium. We must change the approach, not the medium. When we focus too much on the medium we THINK we change the approach, but haven't.