Rethinking of education should aim toward strategies that provide access to the new educational resources for everyone in society and give people the motivation to take advantages of these resources. (129)
Rethinking Learners discussed how instead of thinking how to improve schools, we should be asking “how can we develop games to teach history”. I felt that this is a logical statement because we are not trying to improve the school itself, a school is a building where learning takes place and we should be focusing on the education that is involved and the different ways we can push forward and offer different tools.
Questions that come up: What might happen if our thinking about learning doesn’t change? If schools cannot change fast enough to keep pace with advances in learning technologies, learning will leave schooling behind.
It was interesting to hear the statement about school systems currently do not help students develop intrinsic motivation to learn, that there is a huge disengagement with students and the curriculum, enforced by less-than-ideal classroom experiences. It really was not surprising to see the statistics of 50% of high school students are bored everyday in their classrooms, and 82% reporting school experiences “boring and irrelevant”
Machines for toddlers that teach reading, which I find interesting but as a future teacher I find to be horrifying, because I feel this someday could eliminate my dream job. It is interesting that students who play games, can develop an interest in the subject that may be rather boring.
The idea has been brought up multiple times of classrooms without teachers, that students are guided by technology and Teachers can help out when students need more assistance than a computer can provide …Makes me question if I should just change my major now!
If we could find what type of game could interest everyone and have curriculum involved. It would be perfect.
It was interesting to read about the different online games that involve so many basic literacy practices, and how much they are actually utilizing. It has reinforced the idea of bringing technology into the classroom to make the learning more interesting for the students and give them the ability to learn for their future.
One of my favorite quotes has come from this chapter in this book and it states
" Those of us who care about education should do whatever we can to see that our children are educated the best they can to live in a technology-rich society"
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