What does school 2.0 mean to me?
After reading the blogs and articles, I realized that most of the science fiction movies that I watch showing the future seem to becoming to fruition. Students in the future will be able to pull information in real time during a presentation and increase their own rigor by asking the web their questions and not rely on the experts knowledge. Children can be coached to have inquiry for themselves and not just seek the correct answer. I believe that school 2.0 has the correct ideology to lead educators into the next step (evolution) in our profession. One where educators are more facilitators to knowledge and less regurgitation of knowledge that the students must consume. When educators can lead the student to want to learn then they are doing their job. It is not our job to teach the information, but lead them to become better and more knowledgeable than we are at any point in time.
What does it mean for school of tomorrow?
I believe that what we think of technology in the classroom and how the classroom looks today will pail in comparison to to side of unbelievable. Technology will drive learning and the students will absorb more than we can even fathom. As long as the students do not become dumb because of technology, their heights of learning can be unmeasurable. We as educators will have to stay abreast of the new tech so that we can help facilitate life long learning and not allow the students to become bored. Life of an educator will be much harder if we become lazy and apathetic to the new tech. It is tech that drives these kids anyways. Whenever I walk the halls in the morning they are all conversing with their phones out about some aspect in their lives. It should be our jobs to try to use this fascination with their tech to drive learning. Until my district revises the tech codes I feel that we could fall behind to the more innovative districts.
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