Well, i think education is almost married to technology in the future. With more games, internet, TV, blogs, online information etc, it is not difficult to see exactly why this will become the case. In order to get the attention of these Digital Natives, educators just got to tap on something the students like, and well, turn it around and use it to their own benefits.
Teaching will be fast paced, and focused. You get the things you want to teach, and you deliver. The delivery, thought, will have to be engaging to the digital natives, and somehow 'fit' their way of learning . Learning becomes all round the clock- you see something that spurs your curiosity, snap it and ask someone or anyone. Learning becomes interactive, becomes on-the-go.Learning becomes game based too. It evolves to become fun, interactive, engaging and making students want more. Teaching however, may also require more out of the teachers, not only knowledge, but all the skills attached to this job in the future.
In my opinion, NIE is doing just that. with IT courses, communication courses all hand in hand with pedagogical courses, it all seems like the armour, the weapon, the sheild that we need to fight in the future battlegrounds of education. The COTF also gives us a peek into how the world around us may evolve into, how things can change, it works almost like fortune telling. As an aspiring teacher, i think it is important for me to abandon all the restrictive thoughts i have about teaching. Being brought up in an education system that is half 'traditional' and half 'modern'. TO elaborate more, it is to say that in the lower levels of education, i was taught to do the right thing, absorb knowledge, be good with the curriculum, score well in exams.. then it changes to start questioning, be creative and innovation, learn beyond the classroom...
I must be convinced, and convince myself that the old ways will not work anymore. Looking at the young kids round me- cousins, friends, nieces, nephews; they are not going to be any smiliar to me. Our thinking will be different, and we are different. To win them over, i have to change what i thought i could/should do. BE compatible with them. ( i just cannot stop at windows vista when they are going on to windows seven, HAHA )
Link to my anchor of thought? or something like that. kinda interesting, lol.
http://www.wiu.edu/thecenter/articles/teched.html
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