This is really cool. This has been a great and enlightening experience already. This should be required of all teachers.
In response to an earlier post, I found an answer to the "dinoaur teacher" that I discussed in Thing #2. I David Warwick's Blog 2 Cents he has a post entitled Zero Tolerance in which he addresses what he thinks about this type of teacher.
“No more excuses.”
We’ve waited long enough. It’s been 15, 20, 30 years depending on when you want to start the count. Teachers have had enough time to accept and adapt. They’ve had enough time to decide if they want to teach today or yesterday — enough time to decide if they want to prepare their learners for the future, or for the 1950s.
I’m hearing again and again how education conferences, geared toward 21st century issues, are growing and exceeding attendance projections — and sense that a tipping point might have been reached. We have been patient enough and our students have probably let us get away with foot dragging teachers way too long.
The question is simple, “Are you going to adapt your philosophies and practices to a new generation of learners, a new information environment, and a new future?”.
If not…
Then get out and go run a Laundromat.
Couldn't have said it better myself.
Deciding to change the future one step at a time involves walking in the minute and claiming to learn...always to step up and step out...be a life long learner. Yes, technology has come so far and we have to experiment with it to release us so that we can be "in the know"...so that our students can excel in their future. The internet has enabled us in this 21st century to network together and reach forward - as a team - to make the load 1/2 as heavy for the next person - our students who are eager to learn! No one should hold onto the "dinosaur person" position - break out!
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