How will you be your own agent of change in the classroom to meet student expectations - is it your responsibility?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A-ZVCjfWf8&feature=related

These two videos really help show just how much outside influence and media really part of their normal daily routine. I am a lot like the college students who say how much time they spend on the computer and doing other things not related to class and school and how we learn to multi-task so that we can do everything and so that we are constatnly under the influence of technology and other various activities and media. I know that for me, my main priority in life right now is school, but how many hours a day do I actually spend engaged in school activities and work?

The kids in school today are knowledgable and trained in many different forms of technology. Some of these things are tools that I have never even seen before, let alone used them. I think this is the greatest challenge for training teachers because we need to be engaged and trained in new technology in order to keep up with our students and to incorporate those tools in our lesson plan so that the students will be prepared to use it all in the future. The majority of jobs that exist today are going to be run completely differently when our students go out into the work force due to technology and we need to prepare them for that change, which means that teahers need to incorporate as much new information and technology and be aware of new devices that are out there and will make a difference in their students' futures.

I also like the second video a lot because it points out the fact that some of our traditional teaching strategies are not as important as new things. A good example was when the boy held up a camera and asked how this might help him in his future, and although the traditional textbook and ruler type of lesson is still necessasry, it is also important to consider alternative tools in the classroom and how they might be applied to real life and jobs in the future. They demonstrated a lot about how the internet and computers are so important in each of the students' lives and how it gives them plenty of opportunity to explore the world in a different way. I think that teachers really need to start incorporating these new methods of technology and exploration into the classroom so that students can expand their mind and discover new strengths and opportunities for the future which might not be known to them yet.