This video really made me think about the issues that have been coming up in some of my other classes, in particular how America is falling so far behind educationally compared to the other super powers of the world today, and yet how our confidence is simply through the roof. Children of America have access to so much information, and at the same time it feels as though they really have not accessed it. American children fully and completely believe that they still have the same standing in the world as their counterparts so many generations ago, when America was the "promised land." Well, we no longer are that land, but we certainly still believe it.
This video presented the "world" of today's child as cell phones, PSPs, computers and Ipods; it's definitely an ADD nation. This was a portrait of multi-tasking, and this is confirmed by the statement "The average student today will have 10 to 14 careers." Ten to 14?? How can anyone be successful at 10 to 14 different things? This makes me feel like we are preparing our children to "float" from job to job, to try something out until it gets boring or hard and then just bounce on over to something else. If the cell phone battery dies, if you get tired of listening to music, if you get frustrated that you can't beat your video game--you just turn it off and head over to the next gadget.
What happened to this classroom?
I'm not saying no to technology. It has great resources. I'm just saying that I'm concerned that in our rush to embrace technology, maybe we are forgetting about the most important resource we have: ourselves and each other. Interacting is a skill. I hope we aren't losing it.
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