Britt Huxley- Blog 3

6.   Watch Mr. Winkle Wakes by Mathew Needleman:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm1sCsl2MQY Write two paragraphs.

Today’s world is changing every day. It is changing in the amount of people, in the buildings around us, the way we complete activities, and even the way we are teaching today compared too many years ago. Buildings are getting bigger, machines are doing factory jobs and helping people live their day to day lives, people are keeping in contact with people many miles away from them, and student’s classrooms are relying more and more on technology to teach them the curriculum. Technology is making a major impact on our world. All around us we are looking at different technological advances that are helping us live our day to day lives. Apps on phones and online activities are making creative ways to play ‘games’ to allow students to understand the curriculum in fun and easier ways. The teachers are using websites to teach kids, as well as electronics in the classrooms, like projectors, electric whiteboards, and more technological calculators. We need our students to learn how to use technology in the classroom so that they can keep up with the work and curriculum that they need to know throughout their schooling career and into adult life.

This video shows the importance of knowing how to use technology to learn in today’s world. There may be a few teachers who sit at the front of the room and lecture so the students can take notes, but generally, no matter how the teacher teaches, there is some kind of technology helping them. Anyone who is older, or born and went to school a while ago would have trouble in today’s classroom with all the technology. They weren’t taught how to use it and don’t understand it like the children today so they would feel uncomfortable in many of the classroom situations today. There has been so much change from a century ago to now, changing every year and many argue whether it is a good thing or not. Of course it is helping the world in so many ways, but many are considering whether it is taking the world in the right direction or not and whether it should stick with more traditional ways of life and teaching as technology is taking over our lives too much in some aspects. This will always be a question up in the air, but technology is helping teachers in the classroom, it’s just a matter of how much they use it. Some people would rather it how it was many years ago, some would rather it how it is today. People who went to school a few decades ago or more would have trouble in the classroom today. It is about adapting the children to the world today and using the technology to help them succeed in the best way possible.