Hey Blog!
For today’s tech class, we talked about the Most Likely To Succeed movie as well as created Trello accounts.
I thought the MLTS video was really interesting. This type of education is obviously the ideal for so many teachers and students; however, it seems so unrealistic to incorporate it into the education system that exists right now. Our current post-secondary system is so often centred around the percentage that’s attached to your student number and this makes the school system in MLTS almost pointless. Even though students will have the opportunity to have this really insightful learning (which is SO awesome), eventually, students will have to go back to the typical test taking system if they choose to attend post-secondary – and who knows if they’ll be prepared? Nonetheless, I believe teachers should begin to implement these types of inquiry based projects into the classroom while still incorporating the traditional math and grammar. I believe that these subjects are simply too important in daily life to overlook in the classroom. Students should also learn how to listen to information that is not necessarily related to their interests due to the high possibility that they will have to know how to do this in life after education (or even during education).
With all this being said, I still know that learning increases when students are interested in coursework, and teachers should strive to make their classroom environment a fun, welcoming, and engaging one.
With regards to Trello, I felt that setting it up was not as simple as setting up this blog. The instructions were out-of-date and this required me to actually use the Trello website to try and figure out how to set it up (maybe this was intentional from my teacher, who knows???) 😛 After setting it up, I was able to ask peers and use the remainder of the instructions to create lists, cards, and checklists. I quickly figured out that Trello is pretty much an online agenda. This is great for people who are on the move, do not like to write, or prefer technological ways of organizing their tasks; however, since I prefer writing down my commitments and events, as well as being able to see everything at once, I don’t foresee myself using Trello as an agenda/online organizer after this class. Nonetheless, it’s a good tool to know so that I can introduce it to my future students who will be children growing up in an age centred around technology. Therefore, this type of organizing might be ideal for some of them.
In simple words, I’m glad I’m learning a variety of technologies so I can pick and choose which to incorporate into my daily life as well as pass on this knowledge onto the next generation. Because isn’t passing on knowledge what teaching is all about?
Logging off for now,
COordt 🙂
