Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Technology stubborn children
Ok, so I'm all for engaging children in education, but form all the articles that are coming out today, I get the feeling that kids are expecting, no demanding everything to engage them as much as their video games will. The article, "Engage me or Enrage Me" by M. Prensky was well researched and presented a good point: kids in school today are bored. I get that technology has changed from the 1960s, but we I don't feel we need to change every aspect of the classroom. I mean, lecture has been a style of teaching that has been around for thousands of years, and I still enjoy it. Granted, I do expect my teachers to engage me, but I think the difference is that I expect them to engage me with the voice tone and by giving me valuable information. That is good public speaking. I think these kids are demanding to "have fun" and learn at the same time. They want the value of their knowledge to come from the form in which they receive it, rather than the information itself. I guess my one question is: How do we get kids in schools more interested in what they should be learning without turning the classroom into a video arcade?
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