Green chalkboards, Encyclopedias,
Poster Projects, worksheets, and flashcards are all ways we adults learned when
we were in school. So needless to say, today we should not be using these “Best
Practices” of the 20th century. As educators we need to begin to “unlearn”
many things in order to move forward. By doing this we can then transition into
the educational side of Social Media.
Our students “power down” the moment they step off the bus
and enter the “school house”. This should not be the case. We must challenge
and meet our students where they are, not where we feel the most comfortable. So,
with BYOD as an active learning, student engagement piece of the puzzle at my
middle school we are seeing the tide turn and students are beginning to tap
into social media at school in a way they could never do so before. Going green
is just one positive by product of this new venue of education.
Watching the students engage via Skype, Blogging,
SchoolTube, Glogster, Edmodo, and Poll Everywhere (just to name a few), it is
truly exciting to see them actively engaged as digital natives. Since we are
preparing our students for jobs that do not even exist, it is best that we
continue to join with them in this technological endeavor so that we can, for
now, provide for them an educational atmosphere conducive to their way of
learning.
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