A Vision of K-12 students Today.

 Vision of K-12 students

Kids who are born at 21 Centuries are special. They grow up in the environment with high-tech. They started to watch TV, listen to iPod, play computer games since they were small. As the result, they feel more familiar with having high-tech around.

However, many teachers in the school do not use technology to teach them. As the video shows, 76% of the teachers do not use Wikis, blogs, and podcasts to teach young generation. Moreover, 63% of the teachers never let students create with technologies. To tell the truth, what are kids going to learn when they are in school? They hope they can create, consume, remix, and also share information with other classmates. But, indeed, they cannot.


For modern students, they spend 3.5 hours playing games, 16.5 hours watching TV, 5.5 hours using computer, and 4 hours listening to ipod. Yet, they ONLY spend 2 hours  to read in a week. Furthermore, they use cellphone to text, use instant messages to communicate with each others. Their parents also use e-mail to contact. In the world like this, how can teachers still use those old strategies to teach? Students who still learn by repeating the words feel curious about its effect. Does keep repeating words like "cat, cat, cat" can really help them to remember the word? Definitely, using high-tech like camera, computer and muti-media would work better.

Learning for kids do not have limit. They started to learn everything since they were born. Therefore, their learning should be "WWW" which is whatever, whenever, and wherever. This would be the best for them. By using technologies to learn, they could understand how to think on their own, to create, to analyze, to evaluate, and to apply on what they have learned. Children nowadays are digital learners. So, teachers who plays a very important role in their life should improve. Engage them with high-tech, connected to the world.

Announcement: Teachers, stop using traditional ways to teach. Engage with technologies!!!!