When I become a teacher/ Digital Natives

The youtube video was a nice insight to what type of attitude Not to have when becoming a teacher. Unfortunately, there are some teachers who, perharps without realizing it fill the shoes of the people in that short video. Their stress, or other circumstances take precedent over the reason they became a teacher in the first place, and they don't see that they are letting that show to thier students.

Hopefully that never happens to any of us :)

The article about the Digital Natives was interesting. I do agree that students now are growing up with all of the technology and are mastering it at age six, when my father who is 61 cannot remember which remote changes the channel, and which one turns on the dvd player. There are some teachers, who often will admitt to it, that are not technoloigcally savy. It is not there fault, they are just, as the article said, Digital Immagrants. Whether it is fair to teacher or student to make one of them change, I would have to say no. I think that students that are growing up in a digival age, need a lot more stimluation, that even we did as children, and especially as our teachers did when they were in school. The constant stimulation children get at home from the television, computer, video game, ect. simply cannot measure up to a lecture out of a text book and these students are getting bored, which leads to goofing off, which leads to being sent out of the room and getting into trouble.

Finding a way to integrate the two words and teach students the "old ways" of learning while also having teachers adapt to new ways of teaching these new types of students is the key to success. Unfortuantely that key is probably burried at the bottom of the dump underneath, all of the first generation iPads, early ipod nanos, PS 1's, desktop computers, and rear projection televisions. We will find it someday, however, and take the pieces of the thrown out technology, and create a studnet centered classroom, where they are stimulated as much as they would be in a first person shooter video game, while not making the teachers go grey beause they can't find the zoom button on internet explorer 32 because their windows just updated. :) 

I fear that some of this Go forth with technology attitude and leave the "old world" behind is going to lead to an illiterate society. Even when I was in high school, there were students that would write papers as if they were sending a text. (idk, U, w/, w/e, etc) were found in English papers that were getting turned into teachers. If we do not find a common ground of new and old I do not think students of the future will be as well off as we hope. Watching a youtube video instead of reading a book, texting instead of writing, etc. are good tools to know how to use and are quick and easy versions of the real thing, but are not the real thing.