Response to The Future of Learning: A Networked Society

After watching the video I thought about the idea of technology and education and how as a future teacher this will relate to me. In today's society and the amount of technology available to students teaching is going to have to change from the normal question and answer we are used to. Students are no longer asking questions and looking for answers because if they want to they can Google it and usually find the answer on their own. Students I believe are going to rely less and less on teachers and their answers and more on what kind of skills and knowledge they can teach the student. The part in the video that talked about there being best times for students to learn to me actually makes a lot of sense. Teaching a students the same boring thing for two hours is not going to keep their attention but if you teach them for shorter periods of time they are going to be more likely to stay focused and take in more information. Teachers have a huge amount of resources to choose from just from the internet alone and as a future teacher I want to use this resources to make class as interesting and exciting as possible and use different ideas to keep my students engaged. Things like blogs, glogster, prezi and even just finding ideas. During a social class I think it would be a cool idea to do something like a blog or Skype with other students to learn more about their country and culture and this will usually give you more accurate information than a textbook that may be ten years old. The idea of teachers moving away from so much testing and memorization will be more beneficial for the student. When we focus on just a test this usually has the students cramming to memorize everything and soon after they write the test they forget most of what they learned and will never go back to this material. We need to focus less on putting pressure on students with tests and more on teaching them skills like problem solving and critical thinking; things that they will actually use in the real world.