Educators must not be digital slackers. Our kids aren't.

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I ran across this video and thought it important to share. What is said here is, in my mind, the truth and also the next logical step in education. We must engage students using the tools they are most comfortable with. Big surprise?

These students are digital natives who are comfortable with technology and in fact rely on different types of information than those of us who predate (I'm 49) the modern mediums and lexicon of modern electronic social interaction.

We need to meet the needs of students using the mediums that are most comfortable and meaningful to them. This requires a rethinking if not complete dismissal of the old axiom of student as empty vessel waiting to be filled. Guess what? They are far beyond most of us in terms of knowing how to access modern information sources.



I think it behooves us to catch up. Rather than being the 55th in technology aptitude, we need to wire our schools for modern learning. This is not strictly an IT issue. IT knows IT. We need those who can mesh the technical with the pedagogy, and those who understand not only hardware and software, but also how to make technology meaningful instead of just ubiquitous.



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