Please watch the video "Did You Know 3.0 ?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmwwrGV_aiE
What is your reaction? In your opinion, is the video correct or incorrect or biased? In what specific ways should the content of this video impact education? Before July 10, add your thoughts in the comments section. You are invited to comment on other colleagues' comments.
After watching, I have seen this video before. We watched it as a district during professional development. I think it is an eye opener. It shows we need to be open-minded and willing to change. Things are changing in our world, so we, as educators, need to change with them; or be left behind.
ReplyDeleteThis video was very interesting to me. The statistics that compared technology in the past to present-day absolutely blew my mind. It is pretty scary to think that what we are teaching our students and the technology we are providing them with will soon be outdated. We have to be willing to evolve with our world and with the technology. I hear so many teachers complain that life was more simple when they were a kid when there wasn't as much technology. However, our world is constantly changing and as teachers, we can't fight it. We must embrace the changes and prepare our students to the best of our ability.
ReplyDeleteI was surprised, but once I thought about it, it didn't seem like it should be such a shock. As educators, we need to incorporate technology into our day to day routines in order to keep up with other countries.
ReplyDeleteAfter watching the video, I felt behind. As teachers, it's important for us to stay up to date and I don't know how we will when there are so many new things being invented. I want to be current with my knowledge and incorporate new technology in my classes, but will I be able to? I am going to have to try hard to expose myself to knew pieces of information.
ReplyDeleteWOW! Technology has really taken off. As educators,we need to start preparing our students to function in a global society. If we are not proactive our students will be unable to compete on this technological and quickly evolving world
ReplyDeleteAs a student myself in a technology world I found this video to be interesting and eye opening. I personally feel that as an educator I need to prepare my students as best as possible for this digital world. It's daunting to think what types of technology are yet to be created. However, as a person who enjoys technology I'm excited to see also.
ReplyDeleteThis video really opened my eyes to what is going on in the world. Technology is ever changing and we need to be able to keep up with it. As a teacher, I need to be aware of stats like this and be able to keep up. The landscape of our world is ever changing and as someone who has a direct affect on the future of our world, I need to make sure I am keeping myself and my students up to date on these types of things.
ReplyDeleteMy initial reaction was that of, "Oh, I've seen this." But as it continued, and I really starting thinking about the numbers, I had to remind myself that they were real numbers. It truly is amazing how quickly our society is changing, with or without us. This video goes to show that education is important for teaching skills that can be used in the future, not (as Dr. Topp has mentioned) to teach to a child looking for a job in 1990.
ReplyDeleteThe mood of the video seemed bleak. The music and presentation gave me a sense of isolation. I'm not sure if this is what the director had in mind, but that is how it affected me. I prefer to think of technology as something exciting and fun. This video seemed to present technology as something frightening.
ReplyDeleteWhen watching this video I thought about things in two different ways. The first is that I am a student in the world of technology, and I believe I always will be one. It is my duty to continue learning about new ways to stay connected in our world, and "to be a part of the times." The second part was the realization that as an educator, it is my duty to continue to be updated so my students are not behind the times. Very intriguing video!
ReplyDeleteWhen watching this video I realized exactly how fast technology, and with it life, is changing. With technology doubling every two years that puts a tremendous importance on teachers to be able to adapt to these changes, and also have curriculum that responds effectively. This video also shows the importance of reinvigorating the U.S educational system so that our students still remain competitive on global job markets.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, while everything created by a human has some inherent bias in it, I don't believe this video was overly biased. It obviously had an agenda, but since it was simply a string of facts, I don't believe it to be as biased as say, an Op-ed piece.
I'm not completely shocked with the information that was presented. I do believe that we are teaching students and preparing them for the "unseen" future. With technology, that could mean that we are preparing them for things we don't even know yet and that is the tough part of our jobs as educators. As being correct, incorrect, or biased I'm not too sure. There has to be an angle, but I'm not sure how they want to make their viewers see the information.
ReplyDeleteI am interested in the motivation behind making this video. The first set of numbers seem to serve as a sort of wake up call to the US to remember how much influence China and India has. I think it was meant to scare, which seems silly because fear is not a good motivating factor. I wish that the video would have encouraged interdependence more strongly. It seems that people think too much about competition, rather than working together to address the bigger issues of war, famine, slavery, etc...These problems are bigger than ever, yet the world's "smartest" people are just excited about making a smarter supercomputer. Is this really going to "make the world a better place?" Is technology really the answer?
ReplyDeleteI really agree with the "scare" tactic feeling. The music and transitional effects of the video certainly created that mood. Maybe it goes back to the same discussion we had in class today, how can we teach social media citizenship to students who haven't developed face to face socialization? Technology can make the world much smaller and at the same time isolate us as individuals.
DeleteI remember seeing a video similar to this one several years ago. The idea that stood out to me then, and grabbed my attention again, was the fact that we are teaching students whose jobs have yet to be created. It leads me to reflect more on what I'm doing with my students and how I can provide learning opportunities that will prepare them for this future. It is an ever-changing world. Educators and the education process have to change along with it, or we won't be able to remain the leader among the nations of the world.
ReplyDeleteAs I've read through some of these posts, I see a recurring phrase of "eye opening" and in one case for me, jaw dropping. What I appreciated most about the video was the beginning of the video where it states we are preparing students for careers and technology that has not yet been created.
ReplyDeleteThe many references to China and India were interesting. I try to tell my kids when we study logic and reasoning is that we need to develop these skills so we can stay globally competitive.
To think I was watching the video on my television, streaming from my iPad through the Apple TV...all technology I didn't have more than two years ago.
I'm not sure how education can keep up with specific technology that changes so quickly. It's amazing to think about how what a tech major learns is outdated by the time he graduates. If we are preparing students for jobs that do not even exist yet, and I believe that to be true, then I think the way we can serve our students best is to create lifelong learners who are collaborators and problem-solvers -- both with and without technology.
ReplyDeleteI didn't appreciate the "feel" regarding China and India. We will never change the fact that there are more people and more babies born there. I agree with others who wondered, "Is that supposed to scare me?" What's true is everything is global now. Does it have to be a bad thing?
I found the statistics to be very interesting. Honestly, the reality of the speed at which things are changing is disturbing to me. I don't think we, as a society, really know what to do with ourselves and so much information anymore. As I think about things continuing to change even more quickly with access to even more information in the future, it makes me sad. I'm definitely not anti-technology! I just think it is healthy to not know everything about everybody all of the time. A little delayed gratification is a good thing.
I realize I'm sounding so negative! It is a really cool video.
I found the video very informative. My overall thought was that maybe as teachers and as a society we should stop stressing about keeping up with the "latest" and "greatest" devices and start focusing on teaching students the skills they need to work efficently with any device. For example, we discussed today that students can typically figure out what they need to do to complete an assignment using technology with 50 steps, typically with only 5 or so directions. So why not stress the skill? When so many programs, devices, etc. are pretty easy for students to navigate.
ReplyDeleteAfter watching the video, I couldn't stop thinking about the question "so what does it all mean?" There can be many answers. There were a lot of different statistics that were shocking and very interesting. The fact that the amount of technical information doubles every two years is fascinating. Technology is growing way faster than we anticipated and way faster than we are prepared for. With that being said, we need to keep in mind the information that we want our students to learn and need to have many different ways to teach that information. We cannot always rely on technology or on the piece of technology that we know how to use the best.
ReplyDeleteStudents going into a college for a 4 year technical degree will learn information in their first year that will be outdated by their 3rd year. The amount of information is endless and we are always trying to play catch up. Some of those statistics were scary and made me think back to when I was younger. The fact that 70+% of Apples income is from Iphones and Ipads, both which didn't exist 5 years ago, is crazy to me!
As educators, we need to keep all of this in mind and we need to recognize that the generation that our students are growing up in, is full of technology and new technology is being created all the time. We just need to realize that we will always be learning new things and how to use new devices. Some teachers get stuck in their ways and technology scares them. We need to stop being scared and start learning the new technologies. We teach children to be life long learners and we need to make sure that we are continuing to be life long learners, especially when it comes to technology!
Something that continues to replay in my mind as an educator is that we have the job of teaching America's future. It doesn't make sense to continue to memorize the state capitals in schools when the answers are practically at our fingertips. I think it is a daunting task to teach for the future since we do not even know what that will look like or be. I think the video referred to exponential possibilities.
ReplyDeleteSomething I thought in the video that was interesting was the fact that what a freshman in college learns will already be old or useless information by their junior year. I also thought the statistics regarding China and India were fascinating in terms of China's English speakers and India's honor students.
The super computer is something I can't really wrap my brain around and the fact that it will be smarter than the whole population by 2049 is crazy (or whatever that fact was saying)!
Bottom line: it is important for me to get "with it" and teach my students for the future, not the past. The future is unpredictable and guaranteed to change many times over. It is important for our kids to learn to adapt. I can't believe that by the time someone is 38 they would have had like 12 jobs. That is insane!
It was a very interesting video and I will be showing people I know. Very cool!
I remember the first time seeing this video. What I like about videos like this is that you get a huge message in such a simple way! It is amazing to see how technology has changed so many aspects of life as we know it now. It is just crazy to think that my children will be using gadgets that haven't even been thought of yet.
ReplyDeleteI think the video is not biased, but is truthful about the U.S. public schools that are not keeping up with others in the world – specifically compared to schools in China and India, where many students’ IQ’s are extremely high, and where the cultures push their students to work long, hard hours to excel. Administrators at U.S. schools should take this video seriously and should strive to develop ways to improve our educational system, and to fill each minute that a student spends at school with quality education instead of with wasted time and nonsense which happens at times. One thing to keep in mind about this video is that China and India are the most highly-populated countries in the world by far, so that may be why there is a higher percentage of people who rise to the top with high intelligence; therefore, looking at the big picture, maybe the U.S. is not doing as badly as one might think, but since those 2 countries have such high populations, why not improve U.S. education? We are a country of competitive people, so why not? This video is a good “wake-up call” that could change the focus of U.S. schools. This video also showed how quickly technological communication has consumed our lives over the last several years, which is shocking. It also reminds us that what college students learn now will be outdated in 3 or 4 years, so that we need to be flexible and open to change. Technology has changed our communication methods; it is exciting to see what the future holds, but I hope that face-to-face communication and eye contact will not become obsolete, because we need contact with each other!
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