- Oct 2015
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Injecting digital technologies into the classroom necessarily affects our relationship with every other communications technology, changing how we feel about what can or should be done with pencils and paper, chalk and black-board, books, films, and recordings
I think this might be the main reason that a lot of educators have been hesitant to integrate new technologies into our system. It comes back to the idea that if it's not broken don't fix it. however, it completely ignores the fact that just because something has worked for so long doesn't mean that it will continue to work.
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some type of informal mentorship whereby what is known by the most experienced is passed along to novices
The only problem I have with this point is that a lot of my experience with mentorship on the internet comes by a "trial through fire" in which criticism comes in non-constructive ways.
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Indeed, many of these youths were frustrated with school
This is why interactive experience is vital to the future of our education system. Limited examples already exist like the FIRSTRobtics program
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- Sep 2015
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As British sociologist Paul Willis argued in the 1980s, when youth attempt to change their socioeconomic standing, they often risk alienating their home community
The idea that one should be able to change their social standing is embedded in our society but it puts them into a different, "transitional" group, no longer equals to the original group and not yet equals to a new group.
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