To drive home the point on what we've been reading and learning about our N-Gen learners, you might like to check out this video on YouTube.
Should you encounter a problem when you click on this link, go to YouTube.com and search for "A Vision of Students Today". Enjoy!
What got to me was this comment "when I graduate, I'll probably have a job that doesn't exist today". Lots of questions surfaced e.g. whatever I'm teaching today, is it relevant to my learners' lives in the near future? / what can I do to help them prepare for their future?
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We can be positive, we can help them believe in themselves, we can help them believe that they are agents of positive change, we can believe in their goodness and in their strengths and in doing so, they WILL believe in themselves and they WILL be agents of positive change - our jobs (maybe their 'teacher' could tell them) are not necessarily always the things we do everyday to get a monthly income.
ReplyDeleteThey can be other things - other things like 'our jobs as human beings living amidst fellow human beings and other living beings.'
And these basic responsibilities to each other will exist whether or not man decides to make flying machines, to industrialise our world, technologise it, to computerise, digitise or virtualise it - so what do you think?
Maybe if schooling seems to always be so out of synch with 'the economic realities' then education will mean being in synch with humanity.
Copy and paste to watch this You-tube link if you haven't already - a statement from perhaps a Net-Gen Learner sometimes also known as(?) the Lost Generation....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42E2fAWM6rA
Yup, you're rrrrrrright. After we've peeled all those sophisticated layers off, we're nothing but human beings, and we've to be in touch with ourselves. As educators, apart from delivering the curriculum bits, we've to reach out to our learners.
ReplyDeleteYes, that was a very powerful video and incidentally we viewed that in class last week - on it being an example of a multi-modal text.