Teaching With Technology in APS

My boss showed this to me today, he found it on David Warlick’s blog, “2 Cents Worth.”

Another awesome video about today’s students…

I always enjoy browsing around the comments to the videos too. So many different perspectives. So many people blame the kids for what I judge as adult deficiencies. How long are we going to be able to use that excuse? Why do you think students would choose to be on Facebook rather than listen to their teacher during class? It’s pretty evident that some things that used to work well aren’t working in today’s classrooms with today’s kids. What changes need to be made? How can we approach this differently so more kids are successful in school and in life? How long are we going to stay with this design, approach, and belief set knowing that it’s failing so many of our kids?

And most importantly, how long can you continue to call yourself an educator (and call our schools schools) when so many of the kids aren’t learning or are not in the least bit interested in learning?

Please think about it… for the sake of your students.