Class Blog #5

Don't teach your kids this stuff

I really enjoyed this blog, Mr.Mcleod just exposed technology as a whole and what our kids are learning on a day to day basis. Computers,cell phones, Internet, tv all contribute to our kids being brainwashed and exposed. We have consumed ourselves so much with technology we fail to see what's actually going on.
I can only imagine what high tech things my kids will have going on in the future. I have a 10yr old son he already been sneaking and watching porn on his PS3. I had to turn up the parental controls so he won't be able to see it. Kids have too much access to porn sites and other mature things kids shouldn't be able to see.

About Dr.Mcleod

Scott McLeod, J.D., Ph.D., is known for as one of the nation’s leading academic experts on kindergarden thru twelve graders school technology leadership issues. Dr. McLeod is an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Kentucky. He also is the Founding Director of the UCEA Center for the Advanced Study of Technology Leadership in Education (CASTLE), the US only academic center that is directly for technology needs of school administrators, and he was a co-creator of the very popular video series, Did You Know? (Shift Happens). Wonderful educator, teaching students everything about technology.

In 2003 Dr. McLeod and his castle partner, Dr. Joan Hughes, started the country’s first graduate program designed to prepare technology based school leaders. Since then he has worked with a several of corporate and organizational partners to move schools into the 21st century. Partners and supporters of CASTLE’s work have included Microsoft, IBM, the National School Boards Association, the National Association of Secondary School Principals, the International Society for Technology in Education, the Consortium for School Networking, and the George Lucas Educational Foundation. Also his technology leadership work, Dr. McLeod has helped several school organizations survive and prosper in today’s technology world.

I SCHOOL

I'm totally against kids being taught virtual not by interaction or hands on. Students that's in college such as myself have a hard enough time doing computer based or online classes. Because it seems like your teaching yourself and you really can't get the feel for the work or classroom this way. There should be a stopping point when it comes to all this technology and this isn't it.
Kids have a right to be taught by an teacher not by a computer,this makes our jobs as educators unnecessary because it shrinks the teaching field even more then it already is. We have to give our full attention to our future students and educators. I love a lot of things you can do with computers from home but not the whole class. We still need pens,pencils and paper in my opinion. Hands on is the best teaching tool we have let's not lose that in today's schools.


Teaching in the 21st Century

I don't even believe there will be a place for us future educators in our world that we are heading towards. All the jobs willbe computer operated and there will be less need for teachers. I hope the I world doesn't take over until I'm done teaching. It's a very scary concept and idea.
Kids can now sit home in front of there pc's and iPads, cell phones and etc. to do all their class assignments without pen and paper there will be no need for so many teachers. It's hard enough for us to even get classes as well as jobs.