"I am not a streaming video or iPod!"
I regularly have distance conversations with a teacher who states that they are not an entertainment device.
The person regularly observes that "most of the class is overly talkative, prefers to share their own connections to the topic being studied at random times without raising their hand (referred to as "blurting out"), and demand that their curriculum is more hands-on."
Is this educator (finally) experiencing their first wave of digital natives?
Most of the students of today have been raised with on-demand electronic entertainment since day one; good or bad. Why not use that fact to bridge communication/academic/social gaps that the class has?
I wonder if an effective learning inventory (both for the students and the teacher) would help the teacher adjust their instructional delivery to meet more of the needs of the class in a timely way.
Does anyone out there have any other ideas/comments? Please include your age and if you are male/female in your post.
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