Lessons Learned

By completing this assignment, I have learned many new things that I did not know, I care to realize before. For one, I had know idea that there were actual standards out there. Though, the video that talked about the Harrison County high school opened up my eyes. That school district understand what its students need. Now, I say need vs want because yes, they may want it. But, those students need that technology. They need to learn how to use technology any many different ways. If not, they will not be able to find jobs in the future that they will need to support their own families. One of the students in that particular clip said that, "Doing makes it fun." Now, I completely agree with his statement. How many of us have fallen asleep in a class when the teacher is just going on and on about what the book says. Who cares?!? Though, if you incorporate technology and the student actually has to do something, that student is not falling asleep. The are being very interactive. They are not just learning, they are learning very important analytical skills.

Learning is something that is personal. If the students can connect their education to something in their lives, they will also pay more attention because they know that it is going to affect them in a very personal way. As educators, I have learned that we must rise up to the standards and realize that we are no longer teaching in paper/ pencil and text book world. We are teaching in a very digitally interactive, media based world that literally has the technology to put the world in everyones fingertips at the click of a button. This is the type of world that our students will be going into, the is the type of world that we need to educate, and prepare our students to go into.