A week ago I was sitting in Starbucks checking off my to-do list. I was feeling pretty productive as I finished up watching a video by Michael Wesch called “Rethinking Education.” That was until I reached the task of reflecting on the video. I had so many great things I wanted to say yet I could not get my words together. The more I tried to come up with something the more I found myself clicking through twitter feeds, blog posts and pinterest links that were leading me absolutely no where. I got up and got a glass of water hoping a little stretch and fresh air might help refocus my energy to complete the post. Still nothing. Overload. I generally like to listen to different Pandora stations while completing work for this class and even that was getting to me. I turned off all extra noise giving it one last attempt to put words down on paper. Where do I even begin to express my thoughts on how important it is for all of us in education to rethink what the heck were really doing with students while they are in the four walls of our classroom? The irony of it all is that one of Wesch’s main points is that our classrooms are not keeping up with the limitless of information. Millions of people can access the internet and contribute to the knowledge. From there thousands are discussing the quality of knowledge that is being shared. As stated in the short film, “are you against the discussion of quality of knowledge?” (Wesch 2011) This is everything that we want our students to be engaged in---questioning and conversing over knowledge! With over 8,000 blogs a day being created, “where are our students in all of this?” (Wesch 2011) I am happy to say that I know education has made a lot of progress since the creation of this video but I also know there is still much work to be done. I started out my reflection sharing how I hit overload because even though technology has and continues to transform education, our students need to be taught discipline and focus strategies even more. The information online truly is limitless. As a parent that has two young children with homework assignments assigned digitally it is challenging to get them to focus on the task at hand considering with a click of a button they could be watching a My Little Pony episode on YouTube. We want our students to be most prepared for future but while we are preparing them for that many disciplines of the past are still very crucial in order to be well rounded citizens of today and tomorrow! Resources: Wesch, M. (2011, January 24). Rethinking Education. Retrieved June 20, 2015, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Xb5spS8pmE&index=9&list=PLbRLdW37G3oMquOaC-HeUIt6CWk-FzaGp
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