This podcast starts off showing children sitting in a classroom where a teacher is using a chalkboard to explain what a galaxity is. It shows the students falling asleep until different forms of technology start falling from the sky. When the students get their hands on laptops, ipods, and cell phones they wake up. Technology is more than a tool to children today, it is their world. Technology engages children, allows for creativity, empowerment, and provides self guided learning. The teachers job is to guide the children with their use of technology.
The podcast on Edutiopa ends saying "this is the digital generation, welcome to their world." This statement couldn't have been said better. Technology is our world today, so we better join it. It is transforming who we are as adults and it is all that children know. If we do not keep up with technology in the classroom, we will only be crippling our children in the future.
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