The podcast we created attempts to reflect the changes in teaching philosophy in regards to technology over time. We developed three characters: a teacher from the past, one from today’s world, and a teacher from the distant future.
Please sit back, relax, and enjoy our podcast…we had a blast making it. Please respond to the following questions. When finished, please feel free to shower us with compliments.
o Do the aspects of education that our teacher of the past mentioned (penmanship, spelling, and math facts) still have a place in today’s curriculum? If not, will there be consequences to eliminating these former essentials?
o How can we, as educators, better prepare our students to work and live in our future teacher’s world (considering that tomorrow’s occupations have yet to even be created)?
o If you had a chance to pick the brain of our robotic teacher of the future, what would you like to discuss with them?
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I will address question #2...then shower you with compliments...I think we can prepare students for the future (even though we have no idea what it holds occupation-wise). We can prepare them to work cooperatively, we can prepare them to sharpen their problem solving skills and we can build their enthusiasm for learning along with enthusiasm for the unknown.
ReplyDeleteYour podcast was super-fan-tab-u-listic!
~amy
I have a questions for Robot Teacher. I feel each culture and each generation has its own way to communicate in 2009, so my question to Robot Teacher is, in the future, what types of communication have become standard world wide and age wide?
ReplyDeleteGood work guys, very creative! I bet it was hard to get all that info packed into 1 min! ;) - Jesse
•I am one of those teachers that still thinks penmanship, spelling, and math facts are important. Does penmanship need to be “perfect” now? No. But you need to be able to read it and the letters need to be formed correctly so it is fluid. Spelling…They need a good phonemic awareness. Spell check won’t help you if you’re not close. Math facts should be fluid. They need to have a base. If they are punching everything into a calculator, is using the calculator really time efficient?
ReplyDelete•I think we can prepare them by teaching them to utilize technology and make it effective AND efficient. Make them adaptable to a variety of technologies.
•I would ask Mr. Robato, “Right now one of our biggest challenges with primary students is reading. With all of the technology your students have, do they struggle in the same area or are they struggling in a new academic area?”
Cass
1) I think there is still room for these types in the curriculum now. We don't want our students to have to pull out a calculator every time they want to know a simple answer or for them to take forever to jot down a simple note because they have to think about how to form letters. I also believe that not as much time needs to be spent on this as before. As time goes on, we may find a time when this learning becomes obsolete.
ReplyDelete2) I think Amy responded to this question well. We can teach the students the skills they need in the future that don't always have to deal strictly with technology. Students will always have to know how to problem solve and work together.
Great job guys. You were really able to describe the topic well. -Kim
As everyone knows Jesse, hormonal communication took over the World Wide Wetwork enabling a sort of mind reading between participants. The ensuing breakdown in cultural taboos caused the mass delusion of free love and world peace in 2045. The military industrial complex has yet to recover, while the world economies continue their upward advances in education. Notably, the United African Nations economy dominates the global resurgence.
ReplyDeleteCassie and Amy, thanks for the kind words. I agree that collaborative work will be one of the keys to student success in an unknown future. There will always be people to interact with.
ReplyDeleteCassie, great question for Mr Roboto. Through the wonders of tacheon radio transmissions he agrees that students still struggle with basic literacy skills but notes that Howard Gardner's ideas are just as important in the future as they are today. That while literacy is a key stone to any educated persons ability to succeed they need to be more well rounded like the "Renaissance Man(Woman)" that was so popular to talk about just a few years ago.
ReplyDeleteSteve and Kim, in regards to question #1- With all of the time constraints being placed on teachers from all sides, be it testing(NCLB), literacy blocks, or RtI(Response to Intervention: keeping track of the 20% of students who show some sort of learning resistance) I think that teachers will be forced to give these basics up in pursuit of keeping up with the deluge of junk education curriculum that seems to shoot down the pike every 5-10 years. I mean I agree with Cassie, the basics have to be covered. But the arts are going to keep the kids coming back to school.
ReplyDeleteAs I finish my Blog at Zero hour....Which teacher am I more like?????
ReplyDeleteGreat work:)) The concept was unreal..