A 9 minute update to the Shift Happens youtube posting that I discussed in a previous posting. I would rate it more effective cause the music is lighter and the narrator less dire sounding! The material presented is cited briefly prior to the start of the presentation, it has far fewer visual images as compared to the previously mentioned posting and at around the 8 minute mark includes 3 crucial skills our students need to have to be successful in the future according to EduTechnator Alan November. So here it is: Shift Happens III.
It's a challenge to simply stay updated with the provocative youtube postings, responses,and updates! Welcome to the digital world of information!:-}
Monday, April 28, 2008
Shift happens
Though I'm leery of yet another youtube video with slightly ominous music, a serious sounding narrator, and data flashed on the screen with dramatic effect, this posting does reinforce the rapid growth of technological implications an applications in a warp speed future. Check it out: Shift Happens.
I would be intrigued to hear the rest of this presentation with requisite roundtable discussions with educators. In my opinion, educators are held up to increased scrutiny as being resistant to technological integration and or the all-encompassing "change" that the previously mentioned video describes.
I would contend that the dominant political parties are too busy endlessly bickering over 20th century social issues ala civil unions for gays & lesbians, gun laws, and abortion. Instead of having a Marshall Plan approach to a myraid of 21st century issues ranging from environmental concerns, re-designing the public school system to reflect a digital, information based society as opposed to an agricultural-industrial society.
And I would argue that the American people have been so lulled to sleep via the opiates of professional sports & the unending pursuit of consumer acquisition and consumption, that our present political and societal leadership doesn't bode well for the digital generation of students sitting in classrooms. Nearly a generation of underfunding public education has left schools with barely enough to sustain themselves year to year much less take on paradigm shifts to the degree that "Shift Happens" proposes need to happen.
The US may be a uni-power militarily speaking however our country has lost its way when it comes to being a world leader in educational innovation, technology research and integration, and certainly as a force for global good (such a quaint concept lost these last years with the Texas Ranger and his neocon posse running amok in the White House and abroad!).
As an educator, this all can be quite daunting. I will continue to follow the words of Emily Dickinson and light a candle in the darkness and make a difference in the lives of those that I interact with!
I would be intrigued to hear the rest of this presentation with requisite roundtable discussions with educators. In my opinion, educators are held up to increased scrutiny as being resistant to technological integration and or the all-encompassing "change" that the previously mentioned video describes.
I would contend that the dominant political parties are too busy endlessly bickering over 20th century social issues ala civil unions for gays & lesbians, gun laws, and abortion. Instead of having a Marshall Plan approach to a myraid of 21st century issues ranging from environmental concerns, re-designing the public school system to reflect a digital, information based society as opposed to an agricultural-industrial society.
And I would argue that the American people have been so lulled to sleep via the opiates of professional sports & the unending pursuit of consumer acquisition and consumption, that our present political and societal leadership doesn't bode well for the digital generation of students sitting in classrooms. Nearly a generation of underfunding public education has left schools with barely enough to sustain themselves year to year much less take on paradigm shifts to the degree that "Shift Happens" proposes need to happen.
The US may be a uni-power militarily speaking however our country has lost its way when it comes to being a world leader in educational innovation, technology research and integration, and certainly as a force for global good (such a quaint concept lost these last years with the Texas Ranger and his neocon posse running amok in the White House and abroad!).
As an educator, this all can be quite daunting. I will continue to follow the words of Emily Dickinson and light a candle in the darkness and make a difference in the lives of those that I interact with!
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