14. Do we teach in ways our kids want to
understand and learn?
Editor's Notes
These are our students…do we really know them? The typical 18 year-old today has…
We can start by looking at the world they live in. It isn ’t your grandmother’s world, or your father’s world. It isn’t even your older sister’s word. It changes expotentially every day!
And what about their School World? --By the time today ’s 6-year old is 21:
22,000 hours of TV; 500,000 commericials ¼ million emails 12,000 hours of video games 10,000 hours on the phone,
Let ’s visit that information again: 22,000 hours of TV; 500,000 commericials ¼ million emails 12,000 hours of video games 10,000 hours on the phone,
AS OPPOSED TO 9,000 hours in school; 4,000 reading.
Do these experiences impact students?????? So much so that we have a NEW generation known as…
--This generation is known as the Screenagers (online, view everything on a screen)
--Digital is language of choice --Their brain is bombarded with digital digital digital!! Everywhere except school!
When we continue to do things in the same way we ’ve always done them, is the question…
“ What’s the matter with kids’ today?” OR…
Or is the question, what ’s the matter with US today?
So we MUST ask ourselves, Do we have the brain of a 21 st century teacher?
