Learning to Change or Changing to Learn?

Are our students learning to change or are they changing to learn, that is what this insightful video from YouTube asks:

This video is encouraging the viewer to understand just how important technology is in the classroom. The educators in this video stress that students are learning more outside school where they are allowed the use of so much more technology, like cell phones and increased access to computers and different social networking applications. One very strong statement made in this video is, "every turned off device is potentially a turned off child". This is an amazing statement speaking to the fact that most districts tell students they can't have or use cell phones in school. By restricting students from using the technology that they use constantly when not in school, that they feel is vital to their lives, students feel cut off. By restricting their world, the schools are restricting their communication, creativity and silencing their voices. The video also speaks to the idea of community, and how the bricks and mortar school is not the center of the learning world anymore, the student at the center and the actual school building is just one of the places where children connect with each other in the larger world community. The idea that the students have the world at their fingertips with the availability of the internet and all that it offers our children.

By offering students opportunities to be a part of the huge changes going on in world, educators are giving students the chance to succeed not only in their education but in life. Educators and education need to provide students with the knowledge that will make them a part of the new workforce, these jobs need individuals that are able to think critically, collaboratively and much more. The dramatic closing statement made in this video about what is changing and happening in the world of education and what the future holds for it is, "it is the death of education but the dawn of learning".

The death of education, dawn of learning

This video really hits home with its content, when looking at it through a critical media eye the way it was put together is what makes it so powerful. The use of the influential individuals from all over the world show the importance of technology to the global community. Stressing that having students that are capable of performing in the technology innovative world is critical. The use of facial close-ups, no background and very soft background music focuses on the message. There is no distractions to the viewer, the way the video is shot and then produced places the focus on what is being said and who is saying it. Everyone included in this video is aiming for the same goal, all working to make sure that the viewer sees the need for change in education. That students must be allowed access to the tools that improve their ability to communicate and interact, that allow them to express themselves and be creative.

Creating an educational global community