Blog Post#2

What Will Teaching in the 21st Century Be Like?

1. Mr. Dancealot

The video was a video of the professor trying to teach his students different dances. The central message of the video was that students have to learn things by themselves. The students become restless because they know you can only learn dancing by dancing. The author makes his case for this conclusion at the end of the video. The students are not able to perform the dance that was taught. I absolutely agree with the author's conclusion. I believe there is a difference between teaching and learning. The teacher can only present you the information. The students has to learn the information on their own.

2. Teaching in the 21st century.

Robert believes that teaching in the 21st century is all about the challenge. You have to challenge the students to create. My definition of create is building or making something new by your self.
I. Technology has made it possible
a. Internet with all the information a person needs to learn something.
II. Teachers have to show the students how to use the technology
b. Everyone can "google" something. Not many know all of what google offers
III. Information travels fast
a. Students can communicate with everybody in the world.

I feel Roberts is correct on how to teaching is changing. The teacher's only have so much time with the students every week in class. The student's have to find ways they can teach themselves. The beauty of this is that everybody owns the means to teach themselves. If Robert is correct my job as a teacher is to becoming more difficult. The teacher will have to constantly push themselves to learn about technology. They will have to do this so they can teach their students the new technology. People crave information. Information is knowledge. Knowledge is power. The teacher has to get the power to the students.

3. The Network Student

Why does the network student ever need to be a teacher? A teacher has to learn thing on his own. The student will have to learn much information on his own. The teacher with the information they have learned never know when they will have to teach someone. The student never knows when they will have to teach someone to use the technology they have learned to use.

4. Harness Your Students' Digital Smarts

The thesis of this video is that when students are encouraged and provided with technology there are no limits. My reaction to this video is a new perspective on teaching. Teachers do not have to "hold the students hand." The teacher Mrs. Davis is exactly right the students have to be thinkers. They have to find out the methods to accomplish something. I have found over the years that when you teach yourself to do something you remember for a long time. The students after learning to push themselves were teaching the teacher new things.

5. Who's Ahead in the Learning Race?

The learning race is being dominated by the elementary students. The younger you are when showed to use 21st century technology; the farther you will be ahead of everyone else. I am currently an undergraduate at South Alabama. I find problems using a computer very regular. I can barely use a Mac book. I cannot upload an I Movie. The elementary students will be learning to type codes when they reach undergraduate codes. We did not have this technology when I was in elementary school. We are essentially running behind the education race. It is a race that only the elementary students will win.

7. Bringing the Locker Room Into the Classroom

I can use many of the methods used in the article. Coaching is exactly like teaching. Teacher have to encourage learning. Coaches encourage everyday at practice. I think the method used in Coaches is the best way to teach. I will teach students on how to do it. I will not show them step by step. The students will learn better by teaching themselves. I will use the "collaboration method." Students learn better as a team. The team can use each others skill to help everyone learn and become a better student in my classroom.