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UPDATE YOURSELF

Filed Under (My Posts) by neslihandurmusoglu on 16-04-2010

You should watch this inspiring talk by a digital immigrant, who is a 6th grade student, creates and sells his own applications.

‘DO NOT CONFINE YOUR CHILDREN TO YOUR OWN LEARNING FOR THEY WERE BORN IN ANOTHER TIME’.

‘Today’s child is bewildered when he enters the 19th century environment that still characterizes the educational establishment where information is scarce but ordered and structured by fragmented, classified patterns subjects and schedules’. Marshall McLuhan 1967

Today’s children like using technology. All of them are surfing on the net, reading web pages, playing video games, talking on the smartphone, using Ipod and social networks.Nowadays there are a lot of possibilities to use technology for education.If you want to be their teachers, update yourself. You can’t TEACH without T_E_C_H. We have to follow all the things that our children follow. I believe that web 2.0 tools give children to practice the language, promote student centered learning and increase real teaching time. Are you using web 2.0 tools at your school? How many web 2.0 tools are you using in your lessons? It should be more than 30.
‘If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow’. John Dewey

Check out the useful infographic on the history of computers.It’s amazing to see how technology is developing so fast.

Source:Oldest Computers Still in Use

4 Responses to “UPDATE YOURSELF”

miss özlem Says:
April 16th, 2010 at 9:00 pm
yeah if you want to be their teacher, u should update yourself. kids want to be happy in the school they don’t want to listen the same instructions,and usual activities.

by the way ı really like this web site:))thanks
Miss Sue Says:
April 19th, 2010 at 6:53 am
I’m sure it will make a great change in our lessons using these activities which will help the teachers to renovate themselves and respond the student’s ever ending expectations of new things. Thanks for sharing them with us
Candan Büge Says:
May 1st, 2010 at 10:12 am
Hi Nelly!

Great blog, liked it:) Hope every teacher will be aware of today’s kids’ reality! They are exposed to so many input that classrooms are dull and extremely boring for them. For they are digital natives, as M. Prensky stated.

If we want our students to acquire 21st Century Skills, first we should at least be aware of them, shouldn’t we?
Best,

Candan