By the time kids enter college, they have played an average of 10,000 hours of video games, have sent over 200,000 emails/texts, talked 10,000 hours on phones, and have looked at 20,000 hours of television. Technology is an extension of them and they expect immediate results for everything. And, let’s face it – technology is so convenient.
But what are school systems and colleges doing to keep up with technology? Are they providing instruction for teachers and professors on how to use the technology they have available? Why do we, in 2011, expect a student to sit and listen to a talking head teacher for 50 – 90 minutes without having any interaction? Why? Because schools are woefully behind the curve on teching up the classrooms.
Look at this graphic from 2008. As you can determine in 2008 it looked bleak for techno savvy students and I imagine today it is even worse.
For the first time in the history of education, students know more than teachers about technology and teachers often have students instructing them on how to provide more interactive classes.
In my opinion, if we are not keeping up students ways of experiencing the best education available, they will lose interest with their ever so sharp minds and just check out mentally as teachers struggle to teach in the same method they taught in the 1930s.
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