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Here on this blog I hope to get a conversation going amongst students, teachers, administrators, and parents about who, what, when, why, and where we should teach technology skills for the 21st century. I am technology teacher at Truckee High School in Truckee, CA and currently teach classes like digital media, e-learning, applications, and keyboarding -- yes...still important! :) Please Join the Conversation!

Monday, April 11, 2011

Technology Today - What Does it all Mean?

Watch the video below and then comment on what this all means to you as a student.  There is no right or wrong answer; just explain in detail what your reflections are after watching and processing this video.  Make sure to include how it relates to you as a student and your learning needs in school.

14 comments:

  1. It seems to me that technology is becoming a big distraction fro many people. It showed that they rather be on facebook or other sites that dont have to do with school rather than listen in class or work. If we are advancing in technology we should bring it every where so other places dont get "left behind". Some of the stuff we learn we may not need in the future and many of the jobs we want to get probably wont exist.
    Ross

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  2. I think that after watching the video most teaching is irrelavant to what we are going to do in life. I think that the main reason we are being taught, and the reason it works, is to prepare us for the work that we will have to do as an adult in our work.
    Max

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  3. watching that video made me realize that americans depend on technology on a daily basis and spend most of our time using electronics.
    ian

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  4. After watching that video I feel that we are pretty much fully dependent on technology and electronics. Some people cannot live one day without using electronics for school, work, or otherwise.
    Griffin

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  5. After watching this video, i felt that students had no motivation to learn, and are unable to function without technology. But what the video didnt show was all the happy people who like to learn. The video was very negative, and only showed one side of the student population.

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  6. After watching this video I felt that students in the modern schools are not being taught things that will be relevant in their future lives, and if schools are trying to prepare us for adulthood... shouldn't it be relevant?

    Simeon

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  7. This video points out that education is only relevant if you engage yourself in it. Technology can be helpful or harmful depending on its use. - Brendan

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  8. Schools today don't treat students as a person with a name, but as a number. They're teaching us things that aren't relevant to students anymore and are preparing them for jobs that don't even exist yet. The point of technology in school in now more about distractions rather than a tool we can use.
    Chloe

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  9. After watching this video it shows me that the education is becoming an outdated and obsolete system. Nobody wants to look at a old chalkboard and take notes, or read two-hundred pages from a book they spent $330 on. The methods being used are wasting money and putting more people into debt for an education that becomes outdated 2 years after they learn it. To me technolgy needs to be utilized so I can learn what is actually relevant and not waste my money.
    Betsy

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  10. i dont think the 21st century can't live without technology without having the technology we would be instable

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  11. After watching the vidieo i feel as though people are becoming more and more dependant on technology and becoming less focused on what they need to learn. Even if what they are learning may not be relivant in the future.
    Mackenzie

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  12. After watching this video i think that we use a lot of technology and it has helped us a lot but it is also holding us back at the same time by distracting us from work and school
    Oscar

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  13. After watching this video i think that most of the people need the technology to live and that technology is way to advance.
    Raul

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  14. After watching this video I relized that technology is taking over at an alarming rate and that everyday the rate of technology is increasing.
    Calvin

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