A Vision of K-12 Students Today
“We expect to be able to create, consume, remix and share information with each other.”
“Teach me to think, to create, to analyse, to evaluate, to apply. Teach me to think”.
Although it drawing both from Michael Wesch’s A Vision of Students Today (here) and the now legendary Karl Fisch’s Shift Happens (here) this video looks at how we might consider using technology to engage with our students. Great video.
It was made by bjnesbitt (more info) who states “This project was created to inspire teachers to use technology in engaging ways to help students develop higher level thinking skills.”
On a negative note. While I do enjoy the notion of information being shared and remixed across the internet I do wish the authors’ would pay attention to citing the source of original content and more importantly where they got their statistics from.
And on a more challenging issue I do wish people would drop the ‘digital learners’ aspect. Really the big picture is all about presenting the students with a learning experience which empowers them. And although the technology is a facilitator it’s not the sole solution towards allowing our students to be creative.
Thoughts anyone?
