Technology is the wave of the future.
Technology is a tool, allowing us to do more.
But so far, technology doesn't seem to be helping with the whole "Interaction" thing.
We'll have to figure this thing out before it kills us.
Every kid, staring at a screen.
More staring ... but at least he's not letting his head fall over.
Ah, now the teacher is watching them stare at screens. So META.
Staring in a circle.
Seriously, Rocketship Academy? This is Edutopia? This cubicle-farm with rows of cells?
We have to do better.
Putting everything on wheels and moving them around daily so the "teacher doesn't even know where to stand" isn't going to improve things much.
Yeah. They get enough at home. Mindlessly fiddling with crap isn't education.
See, lecture isn't a bad thing, in moderation, and when done well. But changing to Khan Academy lectures on the computer to replace the teacher's lectures in the classrooms isn't much of a fundamental shift.
Your guidance counselor spent untold time arranging the schedule so you and your unique teacher skill-set could be present at the same time as the students who needed that exact same set of knowledge and ability. Use the time. Be the teacher.
Leave the screen time for when you and the other kids aren't around each other. FLIPping the classroom is fine. Assigning the Khan for outside work is fine. Watching them day after day, huddled in their solitary confinement of a sensory-deprivation cubicle with walls to block sight of other students, headphones to block the sounds of other students, and a computer to overwhelm all thought ... isn't education and isn't an improvement.
No matter what Rocketship might say.
Maybe a quick glimpse of my road will calm us down so we can be objective about this.
Nice.
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