I apologize for how late these blogs are getting posted. Its been a crazy week and I had some trouble getting on here.
So, "Why Tweens and Teens Hate School" caught my eye. As I was reading the article, I was very split. Half of me was agreeing whole heartedly with what the writer had to say. Yeah, high school was six years ago for me (oh shit now I feel old again) but I still remember HATING it. Homework was a bore, teachers didn't understand, classes were too early, and the rest of it. But once the author started talking about the "homework of the future", I found myself think, No! That is too easy and too awesome and if I had to go through it, every one of those little brats in middle and high school now should have to as well! I realize though that this reaction is only because I an jealous I didn't have the opportunity Thinking back, my favorite classes in high school were my music classes because the teacher used multimedia to enhance the class. So who knows, maybe this fancy shmancy new technology might be helpful after all.
Hahah, at least your excuses for a late blog post isn't work and the Walking Dead reruns before the big premiere! I agree with you about the homework aspect of school. I didn't get to play a math video game. If I could have, I would be excellent with math today. It's hard to sit back and think, "Maybe, just maybe, if I make this lesson plan connected to Twitter, my students might actually engage themselves and do it, instead of copy each other's fill-in-the-blank homework sheets." When we know that we had boring, tedious busy work and nothing was fun in most of our classes. But, as an aspiring English teacher, I need to figure out how to reach these adolescents, and I think technology could help me immensely... Unfortunately. I want people to realize that before these lightning fast internet connections and multitasking like a boss, there was something called pencil and paper work, and actual books that you hold and the pages actually yellow with age and they even smell kind of good.
ReplyDelete:( It's really scary to think that the kindle and nook are slowly destroying brick and mortar stores that sell paper books, not e-books. Terrifying, really.
That is why I buy as few e books as possible and always try to support local and locally owned book stores wherever I can.
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