Reflection Week #10

I am writing my reflection on the video posted for us to watch this week. It was titled "The Connected Classroom". This video made me really think about what challenges face us at teachers in our future classrooms. It really highlighted how rapidly our world is actually changing. In one portion of the video, it read "we are preparing our students for job that do not yet exist". That seems like a very overwhelming challenge, unless you look at it from an adapting attitude.

What I mean by an "adapting" attitude is that we need to have a mold-able teaching style and attitude. We need to be flexible to be able to alter the way we approach our classes so that we can change with the times our students are facing. We also need to be teachable so that we can learn more about the world in which our students live, and will eventually work.

Staying updated about the current world (especially new technology) can be intimidating as a teacher. We are in a classroom all day, not out and about experiencing new technology in the world around us. It needs to be part of our responsibility to make ourselves encounter new technology so that we can better understand the technological changes in the world around us.

As a future educator, I feel I am pretty tech-savvy, but I know that much of what I do know now will become very outdated within the first few years of my teaching. So, as an educator, I know that I can enroll in continuing education classes in order to better understand the world me and keep updated on what is going on in technology today.