Wk #5 Learning
I'm going to base this weeks "Learning Blog" as an extension from last weeks based on the comment I recieved from Rhonda. I absolutely agree that learning today is much faster because of the world we live in today. A long time things were simpler so the classrooms and instruction was simple as well. Today the type of learning that takes places is far beyond anything i'm sure you would have thought 30 years ago. And with technology growing so fast it only makes sense that content and the way it's preseneted would change as well. Since kids at a young age use computers and video games or any other type of technology that has to be incorporated into instruction. If you were to take a student from 30-40 years ago and ask them to do an assignment on the computer they would have been totally lost. So today if you were to ask a student to write out a paper i'm sure they would struggling with it. Time have changed and the way students learn must change with the times as well.
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Submitted by Angela Sauro on Fri, 06/12/2009 - 12:02pm
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I agree
Times have changed. What we require from students today is different from what was required of them even just 10 years ago. So it is important to incorporate what the students are familari with for them to be able to learn.
Do you thing that with learning being at such an accerlated pace with technology that we may be loosing some of the fundamentals? I see this so much in math that with calculators being everywhere (especially on cell phones) that the students don't even think they need to know the multiplication table.
Things certainly have
Things certainly have changed, even over the last ten years as Rebecca points out, and it’s certain that they will continue to change. What opportunities do you see in today’s technology to challenge children’s’ cognitive operation and help advance them through the stages of Human Development we are discussing this week (week 6) studying Piaget?