Blog Post 7

The Networked Student

This video was very interesting. It makes the viewer stop and think about how much has changed in the way that students are getting educated in the 21st century. One of the first things that the video says is that the student does not have a book for his class. To us that may sound a little crazy but to students who are and will be in the public school system in a couple of years this is how they will be given their home work and school work. This is happening today in the Baldwin County schools. My little brother is a freshman at Foley High School and he literally does everything on the internet to complete his school work.

This raises the question why does the student in the 21st century need a teacher?

This is a question that was ask in the video. A student is going to need a teacher because the teacher is going to be there to help the student expand their PLN, how to know when they are reading good information or just a bunch of junk, and how to set up a Personal Learning Environment(PLE) were the students can use tools such as Google scholar. A (PLE) allows the student to organize all of their information they pull off of the internet onto one page. The Teacher of the 21st century is not only going to have to know the information in the class but they are going to have to know how to utilize the tools to teach the students, tools such as a smart board, how to set up a personal learning network(PLN), and showing the students how to use tools such as i pads, and other multimedia devices.

This video really opened my eyes to a lot of information that I haven't thought about because as a student who whats to become a teacher I will have to know how to use all of these tools of learning. It also opened my eyes to the fact that yes this class is very time consuming but it is worth it because it is preparing me with skills that I will need if I want to become a teacher in the 21st century. This video was very simple but it had a very strong message about what us future educators will be faced with. This was a very good assignment and I enjoyed it very much.