Video Reflection: Engaged Learning

This video made some striking compare and contrast visuals. This video compared old with new, India and China with the U.S, Shakespeare with Eminem, the ipod with the jukebox, collaboration in person with over the internet(google), and in class text books versus all kinds of computer resources.

Their main comparison was with the classroom in the past and the classroom today. What are we preparing our student for? Are we preparing them to work in one career? A statistic presented on the video stated that one person in this generation may have anywhere from 10-12 careers in their lifetime. We are not preparing students for one career out of a plethora of careers that all include the same competencies. We are preparing them for a world with all different levels and kinds of knowledge and competencies, and in order to cope with the vast progression in our ever increasing world, student must learn to have a self concept that allows for continual improvement.

So, as teachers, we must be improving daily, and we must be helping our students improve daily to interact with the world they must be prepared to live in, work in, and socialize in.