Exploring Education in Our Changing World

Watching Michael Welsh’s video and our classroom discussion; technology has changed how we interact with each other in incredibly massive ways. Seeing how a video created in Moldova, was then enhanced by people in Europe, again to be altered using anime in Japan, then ultimately enjoyed by someone in the US to me shows the uniqueness of how people think and create all around the world. Schools and classrooms are changing, in some regard if people can learn anything they want on Youtube it leaves opportunity for brick and mortar schools to become obsolete in the future. Schools have opted for total control of technology within the classroom limiting what students are allowed to do and what not to do on the internet. I think it could create opportunity for schools to embrace how the internet works into their classrooms. Classrooms could focus in on the uniqueness of ideas everyone has and create classrooms that collaborate with classrooms from different school divisions, provinces and countries to work on projects together. I think there is incredible opportunity for classrooms to embrace digital identities and create better digital citizens by actually focusing and working on or with people that live in different places and think differently than them. It will help them to transition to what the world is like and what it will be like in the future. I think we have to embrace the digital age. Le the know what your thought are in the comments below!