Digital Learners

A Vision of K-12 Students Today was created to inspire teachers to use technology in their classrooms.  This video shows us that our students are unengaged in their schools and are clearly unhappy about it.  The answer is simple yet we are still not acting upon it.  Our students want and need one thing: A digital classroom.  They want to use wikis, blogging, digital books and other digital technology as opposed to sitting in the classroom and listening to the teachers lecture.  A fact that stuck out to me in the video is that in China, there are more honor students than there actually are people living in North America.  Also, they mention that only half of the people in North America will graduate from high school.  How can we see increasing graduation rates if our students are unengaged in the classroom?  We need to ensure that our students are learning and growing mentally.  In order to do so, they need to develop higher level thinking skills.  They need to learn how to critically think and more importantly, they WANT to learn how to! We can help them develop and grow if we actively engage them and give them the opportunities to develop these skills.  This can be reached through blogging, wikis, digital books and hundreds of other technological tools that can be integrated in our lesson planning. I think the answer is simple.  TO ENGAGE OUR STUDENTS OF AMERICA, WE NEED TO INTEGRATE DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY IN OUR CLASSROOMS!