Here are two photographs of the classes I visited in Regina, Canada. Classes with students fully experiementing in the world of communication and technology with the help of their enthusiastic and futuristic teachers....
There are Educationists really leaping into the future… Are we with them? If not, are we trying to learn their vision at least? Are we preparing ourselves, though at a lower pace, to face the future?... to face the students in the future?
Why is there a shout that the new technology is spoiling the future?
Are we doing anything to shape the future? …. The future with might be a fusion of values and Science?... culture and technology?... humanness and robotics?
Here are a few sites which might help us in our journey towards the future…
http://web.mac.com/iajukes/iWeb/thecommittedsardine/Handouts.html
Visit Juke’s blog her:
http://web.mac.com/iajukes/iWeb/thecommittedsardine/SARDINE%20BLOG/SARDINE%20BLOG.html
Blogs, Wikis and Podcasts are new play-tools in the hands of children as well as youth of today…. Can we, as teachers, use these tools as weapons? If today’s generation is enjoying internet communities, media and sharing tools, how many more days we will survive in their world using OHP transparencies and power-point presentations in their classrooms? We need to change or we will be neglected older generation entities for them...
Isn’t that serious?
