Teachers are focusing the light of the new technologies first on themselves, so that they might develop some new skills of their own. Then they proceed to refract and redirect the light of their own clusters of students, previously shining on trivia and trash, toward more serious and academic subjects.
What are students up to with technology these days?
This article looks at what some of the skills that people will need to succeed down the road a few years when the new technologies have permeated and saturated our workplaces.
Students attend school not simply to practice the technology techniques they already know, but to learn new modes of analysis and to see how they can use those familiar tools to dig deeper and see further. To grow in that way, they need to couple their technical facility with the guidance of a wise faculty.
This podcast looks at how we as teachers, need to understand how our students produce their own media, and then figure out how to exploit this production process into our curriculum.
This week's podcast covers how to make a video podcast, that can combine audio and moving video, and play on a computer or an iPod.
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