Last year I attended one of the largest county fairs in Tennessee and I loved walking around the little makeshift village that was complete with everything from an old fashion mill to an old school house. I went into the schoolhouse with two of my little brother and the lady there had us sit down and do a little lesson like they would have back then while she told us a little bit about how a school used to be ran. I could hardly believe what I was hearing as she went through the rules and procedures that they used to follow. I mean look at the schools now, instead of a blackboard there are interactive smartboards, computers instead of paper or flat rocks, and technology instead of well...nothing. It is amazing to see the difference in the education system then and now, and how something that they would have never dreamt about, Web 2.0, is being Incorporated in many classrooms today.
School 2.0 means a various things to me. First I think that incorporating Web 2.0 into the children's curriculum is a great thing, after all we live in a technical world so the children will need to learn to work it for most jobs they will encounter in their future. I think that schools could take it too far, however, if they forget to keep some of the basics, such as if students do not write on actually paper as much then how will America's handwriting look 50 years from now? I know that might not be a very good example but I think the education system should still consider things like this. In the future I believe students could be doing their homework and reading their texts on IPads or something even more advanced. The school system might not even bother purchasing textbooks anymore and move to an all digital class.
One of the articles I read mentioned how technology is basically second nature to kids nowadays. The Wiki article talked about what Web 2.0, its history, and how it is used. I never realized until this class that I was participating in Web 2.0 by using places such as Facebook and Yahoo to add stuff to the Internet. The video The Machine is Us/ing Us really overwhelmed. Overall it's just amazing to me how far technology has come for the education system.
I agree with you on this. I believe also that sooner or later everything will be on computers and internet. At that point, they might not even need teachers anymore to teach. That is the bad part about all of this is that years from now we might not have a job if the world becomes more and more advanced each year.
ReplyDeleteFun fact: My grandmother went to an elementary schoolhouse that was made of one room with no running water or electricity. Her graduating class from high school was under 30 people! Oh how the times have changed, and how they will continue to change. I wonder what my grandchildren's school will be like...
ReplyDeleteI agree with the statement that schools can take the technology advance too far. I believe that using technology to your advantage is a great thing, but eventually the world is going to grow up missing basic things that you should know how to do. For example, schools are making students type their assignments at an earlier age. Cursive is now being taken out of the curriculum because of all the advances in technology. We don't need it anymore. My question is, "what happens to your signature?"
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with you about technology being taken too far and I also agree with everyone's comments. I included similar information in my thing five post but I didn't even think about what would happen to handwriting and signatures. You made some really great points that I didn't even think about.
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