Teaching in the 21st Century

While I love the new direction teaching is now going in, this video brought up a number of points that I worry about as well. Teaching needs to grow as a profession, we need to keep up with what is going on around us because the students will be expecting us to. Schools are trying to do this but they are definitely behind. It is our jobs to use whatever resources we can get our hands on in order to help our students become more learned people. There is also a fine line. We cannot allow technology to take over our classrooms in a negative way. Students have access to to so many resources and so much information they technically can learn a lot of what we teach them without us being there. This scares me a bit, I worry that in a few years we may not be needed anymore. The video shows that it is our job to show them how they can use these resources in a good way that will benefit them in the future. Students may be more informed than ever before, but it will be very hard for them to be able to use this information without our help. Students will always need to be taught, if we do our jobs correctly we will always be needed. Hopefully technology will keep growing in wonderful ways and we will have more exciting things for our students in our classrooms. The 21st century school will be different, but hopefully it will be better.