Now that I Know Mr. Winkle

The rapid change in society and technology as shown in Did you Know 3.0 is amazing. To that people are preparing for jobs that do not even exist yet is amazing. It makes me wonder how as an educator I am supposed to prepare students for a future with such uncertainty. The good side of it is though that these changes are for the better. Youth are the main users of technology and technology is the driving force behind the creation of these new jobs. These two situations go hand in hand to allow technology to continue at its rapid pace.

Not only has technology changed quickly, but it has also caught on quickly as well. To think that it took 38 years for 50 million people to listen to the radio, but only 2 years for the same number of people to create a facebook account is astounding. To me it seems like people today have more means to stay up to date technologically, and more of an interest in doing so.

Mr. Winkle Wakes shows how technology today really has made the world unrecognizable compared to how it was a mere century ago. From increase of businesses to medical performances technology has allowed man to make some pretty large advances. However, the same cannot be said of the education system which seems to be grounded in its ways. Since youth today are the main users of new technologies it only makes since that schools would take advantage of this in order to encourage their students in order to make the learning experience better, but this is not being done.

This video was created to open up the eyes of teachers to how their methods of teaching might not be the best for their students. Instead, they might want to consider rearranging the leaning experience so that students can relate better. Lecturing can be monotonous even for the best of students, and most of them enjoy hands on interactions better. Overall the main focus is that schools are not keeping up technologically compared to the rest of the world, and that is detrimental to students.