Lost Generation- Is it reversible?
What about this Lost Generation? Is it reversible?
Langwitches
The Magic of Learning through Technology.
Recent Posts
- Google Reader- Starred and Shared Items
- Multilingual Translation
- Blabberize & Jose the Travel Bear
- SmartBoard and Wordle at Open House
- Kindergarten SmartBoard Lesson
Recent Comments
- Danny on Add a Favicon to your Blog
- Langwitches on Google Reader- Starred and Shared Items
- Jenny Nash on Google Reader- Starred and Shared Items
- Martha on Google Reader- Starred and Shared Items
- Tom Campbell on What Makes the WhiteBoard Interactive ?
Quotes
Interesting Stuff
Pages
Meta
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- Noncommercial- Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Visitor Maps
Visitors from...
What am I Reading?
Wanderlust- Fernweh
Global Collaboration
Blogroll
- A Teacher’s Life
- Always Learning
- Around The Corner
- Coolcatteacher
- Crucial Thought
- EdTechWorkshop
- Integrating ICT into MFL
- Leader Talk
- Mister Teacher
- NCS-Tech
- Once Upon a Teacher
- Tech Chicks
- The Power of Educational Technology
Conference Sessions
Digital Storytelling
- Part I-Connect, Communicate, Collaborate
- Part II- Available Tools
- Part III- PhotoStory Guide
- Part IV- Windows MovieMaker
- Part IX- Wordle
- Part V- Google Maps
- Part VI- VoiceThread
- Part VII- Mixbook
- Part VIII- Audacity
Global Awareness
Links
- Adult Spanish II Blog
- Langwitches Travel Blog
- Langwitches Wiki
- Langwitches.org
- SJEDS Professional Development
- SJEDS Tech Connect
Podcasts
You can find me on...
Flickr/langwitches
Linkedin/langwitches
Twitter/langwitches
YouTube/langwitches
Del.icio.us/langwitches
Blog/LangwitchesCategories
- Blogging
- Books
- Cell Phones
- Classroom Projects
- Collaboration
- Conferences
- Culture
- del.icio.us
- Digital Images
- Digital Storytelling
- Education
- Elementary School
- Games
- Games-Simulation
- Geography
- Global Awareness
- Images
- Information
- Internet Safety
- iPods
- Langwitches Podcast
- Learning
- Links
- Lists
- Literacy
- Mac
- Meme
- Metaphor
- Personal
- Podcasting
- Professional Development
- Quotes
- Reviews
- RSS
- SmartBoard
- Social Bookmarking
- Social Networking
- Storytelling
- Teaching
- Tech Integration
- Technology
- Technology Integration Facilitator
- Tips
- Tools
- Travel
- Tutorials
- Uncategorized
- Video
- Web 2.0
- Web Desgin
- Web-based Tools
- World Languages
May 13th, 2008 at 5:11 pm
Ok, now that video was awesome!
I do worry about Gen Y & Z people tho. They generally seem to be so self-centered and have such weak work ethics. I’m hopeful that this perception is just based on my own somewhat-limited experiences with these groups, but I dunno…
May 14th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
I teach K - 5. When I saw this video my first thought was to send it to our 4th grade team and counselor. This is just the type of thing they love to do with their kids.
I don’t think this is the lost generation coming up. This morning I had 5th graders enthusiastically writing reports on how roller coasters work, 4th graders finishing claymation movies, 3rd graders making a podcast about sound, Kindergarten doing an activity about Jack & Jill and the water cycle, 1st graders classifying different resources, 2nd graders dumping water on each other (it was their field day).
Kids get bored and angry when we cut them off from tools they know can make learning easier for them. My kids want to change the world - it is the outside voices saying your to poor, you don’t have a chance — not my kids voices. It is our job to drown out the negative voices, and give our kids the tools they need to change the world.
BTW - our robotics club is making solar lights and solar powered water features to decorate our butterfly garden. The garden committee will love it.