I found the video A Vision of Students Today very interesting. This video was made at Kansas State University by some college students giving their opinions about the progression of technology in the college classroom. The students use paper to show different facts about it is like being a college student. Although this video was made about 5 years ago, students today are still asking the same questions. This only proves that our questions are just being ignored. Why is technology improving daily if we're not utilizing it? As a college student, I definitely can relate to this video. Most of the opinions in the video are true. Buying all the expensive books teachers require use to buy, but yet we are not using them, and also paying for those expensive classes just so the professor can put you to sleep with their boring lectures.
It is the 21st century, it really seems like everything is converting to a more technology based system, except for our classrooms. People who believe in a more traditional way of teaching should really think about it. The classroom is where people learn! If everything else around use, but the classroom is technology based, then the learners are really learning nothing. Technology is definitely apart of our everyday lives and it is very important that we start incorporating it in our classrooms immediately.
From a teacher's point of view, I see students begging for new and improved classrooms. Almost all the videos that I have watch in EDM 310 include students wanting a more technology filled classroom. A classroom that actually utilizes the technology that is developed and improved everyday. I believe as educators it is our jobs to make this happen, to finally stop the every flowing videos on YouTube begging educators to improve their teachings and classrooms with technology. I believe if teachers start using some technology, that the bore that they see from their students will change. It will give them some excitement to know that they are not about to get lectured for an hour and 15 minutes.
This video really shows how far we have come with incorporating technology in the classroom, which is sadly nowhere. I hope that in the next five years, videos like these will just be something we look back on as mere memories.
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