21st Century- CHRIS Video

                                                                  There are many teachers who are adamant about lecturing and nothing else. I think we as educators have to remember the era.  Students are multi- task learners.  However it has to be relevant to their life and important enough to them in order for students to tap into their interest.  In the video,” 21st Century pedagogy”, it was stated that educators need to, “change the DNA”.   I agree that the DNA needs to be examined however there are certain skills necessary to have mastered before a high level of learning can take place.

           As a principal, I would like to see my school focus on the 21st century concepts through the learning experiences and maybe incorporate some type of technology relevant to their personal experiences. One of the other videos, “Education , Today and Tomorrow”, states that students obtain information from so many facets such as teacher and student instruction by which they communicate with each other.  Students can obtain information by entertainment such as through music- use of ipods. Other multimedia technology are  face book, blogs, web page , you tubes and others.  So why not take some of those devices and use it in education environment.  These videos greatly impacted my thought and ideas by which I would like to lead my school.

          When I viewed the videos, I thought about my vision and philosophy for teaching.   I believe students want to learn. However they want to know how relevant it is to their life. One of the videos, Students in the 21st Century, focus on how different the era was from the time of Shakespeare and to present time.  This is one of the things that impacted the direction by which I would want my school to be led.

            I feel that it can’t be a program that is thrown to the teachers.  I would have teachers thoroughly involved in the implementation of the program as well as the parents invested .  Teachers need to observe the program already in use and examine the data that reflects the learning of students.  We would adapt changes or delete changes that would not benefit our school.

           As they have learned the program it is my hope to observe learning with multi-media technology and students engaged. Teachers would have students engaged in the learning environment. They may be using computers in the classroom on a daily basis.  They may be chatting with each other on line about a lesson and posting their response on line. They may be breaking down basic information in math class so that students might understand the relevance of volume.  Teacher may venture to show a recording from you tube on specific concepts.    

           I would venture to have a school in which technology is not a issue of lack of funding to purchase but part of the education of becoming a 21^st Century school. However, this is an ideal school in which every child has a computer to use in each classroom.    

                                         

Additional Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdwEIi22Dv8