Here is a fascinating video shown on PBS and shared through arted2.0. With all our discussions this week surrounding our teaching environments and dream jobs, I thought this documentary goes a long way in describing the world we are teaching within and our students are learning within.
Retrieved on March 24, 2010 from http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/view/
Very cool video, thanks for sharing. I only watched the first few minutes, but I would like to share it with the staff at our school. It is very informative of the culture we and our students are living in today. During this whole process I often felt like sometimes we were creating this whole digital environment to be a bigger deal than it is. I teach in rural Washington with a low socioeconomic population, technology here is limited because of money. Even so these kids are part of a bigger culture that is consumed digitally and it is affecting them even, if they aren't the biggest consumers of it. They need to be ready to meet that world when they leave the one they are currently in. Our school needs to be preparing them for a word that is much different from the one they live in. One that is digital.
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