Teaching and Learning, Teacher vs Student

Written about the clip on YouTube:
“Since most of today’s students can appropriately be labeled as “Digital Learners”, why do so many teachers refuse to enter the digital age with their teaching practices? This presentation was created in an effort to motivate teachers to more effectively use technology in their teaching.

Please see http://t4.jordandistrict.org/payattention to learn how you can become a better teacher.”

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A Vision of K-12 Students Today

There are many versions of this or at least similar clips around but when I watched this one I was reminded of something I learnt during a workshop with Dr Michael Nagel recently. He discussed some the principles of the idea that the human brain (of Gen Y and beyond) is now developing to a modified architecture than the brains of those before them (Gen X back). This is enabling them to do something I think of as ‘complex snippet thinking’. That is work and think of lots of things in short/little doses for extended periods of time. In simple terms like conversing on MSN, Facebook, researching on Wiki’s and the Internet, typing out an essay, developing a presentation, watching TV, streaming a show etc… all at the same time and making it all work.

As written about the clip:
This project was created to inspire teachers to use technology in engaging ways to help students develop higher level thinking skills. Equally important, it serves to motivate district level leadersto provide teachers with the tools and training to do so.

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21st century pedagogy

This video is stimulating as it skims over some of the difference of approaches between the industrial and developing pedagogical models.
As stated with the clip;
‘Need to develop a new pedagogical dna for schooling in todays world in order to break from the past’

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