The Next Generation

The Next Generation

 I fully agree 100% with the statements that were presented throughout this unique video. In today's society, unfortunately technology is taking over. It's not something that I see as wrong or bad, but it strongly impacts students who know how to accurately operate digital devices, but have teachers who have little to no experience with using technology in and out of the classroom. I would highly recommend for all teachers to view this video as a way of showing how important the use of technology is to all students future. As time goes on, the technology market expands. For example, instead of written textbooks, books are now located online. It's incredible to see how over the years, the world is starting to go paperless and focus on converting to digital media. 

As an Information Technology major that concentrates in Education, I'd have to say that I fully support technology use in classrooms. Others may assume that technology will just lead to "goofing around," but in most cases, technology will beneficially help the students in the long run. In my opinion, the most important part out of the whole video that really touched my heart was where a boy and a girl held up white boards that stated, "Let me use the WWW," and "Whatever, Whenever, Wherever." This short snip scene really stood out to me because it was a creative visionary that explained the World Wide Web in different terms. Personally, I found this comparison to be mind-strikingly impressive being that the students were able to clearly make that type of thought-provoking connection. Everyone can access pretty much anything when using the internet which would refer to "Whatever." When thinking about the "Whenever" and "Wherever," everything can be accessed almost at any time now due to Wi-Fi and cellular data, as well as through a variety of handy devices: laptops, tablets, and mobile cellular devices. 

With that said, I heavily agree with the use of technology in every day life specifically because it is revolving into becoming such a major part of society. Everyone needs to know how to use technology, especially future teachers to come. Technology is a tool that is never going to go away, so as future teachers, we should adapt our old ways and encourage the use of outstanding, resourceful technology gadgets. 

Although others may assume that technology is taking over the golden days and forcing teachers to change their teaching ways, technology is the new way of life and a new way of learning. Technology is going to advance and it is here to stay.

Entertain and incorporate the new ways of teaching, but never forget the 20th century.