The joys of YouTube! I've seen the video someone posted about Stacy Westfall freestyle horseback riding. It's inspirational, to say the least. There's also Randy Pausch's Last Lecture, which brought me to tears. Or, if you're looking for something just plain entertaining, how about The Evolution of Dance, featuring Judson Laipply. One of my former students performed this little ditty at a talent competition. I was suitably impressed. Anyway, these things generally make the rounds via email...but I'm more interested in TeacherTube for this class because YouTube is blocked at school (of course).
The thing about using technology to teach is that there is still a technology gap and technology still has many bugs and challenges that make teachers shy away from it. Do I whole-heartedly agree with everything in this video? No. But it does make me think about the options we have, how we can better utilize technology in our classrooms, and how we need to explore all of this to reach our students. Today's students, my own generation, my parents' generation...we are all different types of learners with different attention spans. It isn't just our teaching that needs to grow and evolve, but also our standards, our school environment, school hours, school year. Where do we start?
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