Thing #2: Thoughts about Web 2.0
Technology has really exploded in Mesquite in the past 2 years. Our students now expect technology and more importantly, they "deserve" technology to be used by their teachers. By now, everyone realizes that there is a huge GAP that exists between what the students know and what the majority of our teachers know. Our students today have been raised on technology. My generation used to play in the yard after school until it was dark. Young people today seldom go outside. Instead, they are sitting behind computers and video games. They find it difficult to do homework or concentrate without an ear bud in their ear droning music into their head. A few years ago, I heard it said that our students "turn off" when they get into their desks at school. I definitely think this is true. The students today have brains that are wired differently than most of the teachers who are teaching them. This new wiring is due to the influx of technology that they experience on a daily basis. Therein lies the GAP. Courses such as this are encouraging and what everyone needs to experience to help close this 2.0 gap.
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I think our students are "powering down" when they come to school. I hope we don't lose too many of them to boredom. But it does seem as though Mesquite has made giant leaps in the past 2 years to help narrow the GAP!
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