Hello Bloggers!
I just watched the YouTube video "Mr. Winkle Wakes" and I thought the video was very cute. This short video is about a little old man who seems to have just awoken from an 100 year sleep. He adventures out into the world in which we live in now and is fascinated (and somewhat scared) with all the noises and machines that our society is constantly using. He sees laptops, computers, and hospital machines all for the first time. Yet, when he walks into a classroom, he sees the familiarity and comfort of a teacher teaching her students without any technology.
Mr. Winkle must have walked into a very old school if he believes that schools are the same way they were 100 years ago. Almost all classrooms today have some sort of technology in them. Whether it be a computer, projector, smart-board, or even an audio tape. Even during college classes where the professor lectures the whole time without using the projector or computer, he would still find students that use their laptops to take notes(that is, if the teacher allows laptops during lecture). Professors no longer accept hand-written papers and having internet access is almost always required. The truth is, technology surrounds us everywhere we go, including educational environments.
Makes you think, though, how will schools be 100 years from now???
-Mallory
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