I came across two videos I considered sharing with you this evening - one was by NASA and shared the way robots are being used to collect data on other planets. Now, I must admit I was tempted to use that as an example of out of this world learning methods, but the average educational institution doesn't have NASA's budget. Nor do we have out of this world students.
Our students, like young mods of all ages, love their gadgets, but they also love to be cool. They take to change like ducklings take to water, and I believe that if we want to communicate with them, we need to be where they are.
I'm thinking especially of a comment I read today- about taking care when equating innovation with excellence. While it's always been true that change for the sake of change isn't a good idea, I believe those who don't learn to change with the times will be left behind.
With that in mind, I'd like to share the second video I discovered. It was filmed in New Zealand and illustrates my point - that we must make the most of the opportunity to teach, using of the technology students have adopted. This video surprised me, but I have to hand it to this instructor...talk about psychology!
Enjoy, and TGIF ;o)
http://edcommunity.apple.com/ali/story.php?itemID=742
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Terry,
Your video illustrates I point I've made in my blog and in several comments, and that is, we must adapt to the students and not them to us. In short, education is about connecting, and it is our obligation to find ways to establish that connection. I thought the professors comment about flash cards was interesting. While they may be affective, they were not cool. As I mentioned in my blog, there are always different paths to a goal. We must find the path that students are most comfortable with. In my post, I spoke of learning styles. But the "cool" factor is also important. So the professor found another path to the summit that was cool.
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