I want my family, my students, to be switched on, engaged and enthusiastic about learning. I want to be switched on, engaged and able to connect with them in the 21st century.""I have daughters at secondary school and a grandson that has just started school. I observe what their world is like. It's very much like the one depicted in this video clip. The kids in this clip looked bored and so unhappy, disengaged in the current education system.
This is my second year in the Masters of Adult Literacy and Numeracy degree. I work in the School of English at MIT teaching ESOL Literacy to migrants and refugees. Currently I am a Programme Leader and are responsible for TEC funded places, namely Intensive Literacy and Numeracy, Targeted ESOL and Refugee funded places. I am based at the Otara campus but also work at the Newmarket campus.
Hi Sue
ReplyDeleteinteresting how all the reading and writing was done using pen and paper. The children do look bored but I think it was supposed to be as if they were asking serious questions. Sort of mixed messages coming from this video. It is a primary education take off of a similar video for tertiary students (possibly one I have posted into the paper).
Yes Helen, I have seen it presented in different forums and yes it is 'staged'. However, my teenagers are coming home saying similar things. They were highly motivated and engaged in their learning at primary school and using a wide range of digital tools with high degrees of proficiency. At secondary school there is varying degrees of digital literacy skills among the teachers which does impact on student engagement in learning.
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