About a year ago, Frontline produced a piece called "Growing Up Online". To view the video, follow the link in the upper right corner of the page.
It's an interesting idea, to say the least, that the generation of students that are currently in school have very separate-and yet, closely linked-identities from reality. Yes, they do and even, to a large extent, do the current 20-somethings. I and others have straddled the divide. At the beginning of high school, I got my first email address. But I had no idea what to do online, except check my email...and I rarely got any of that! Now 7 year old are given "primers" on "online behavior." Can't we just go play Cops and Robbers?
Below are my reactions to a few of the more ridiculous quotations from the Frontline episode.
1) "To walk into a classroom that doesn't have any of that media, must be like walking into a desert." -Steve Maher, social studies teacher of 11 years.
No wonder we aren't as successful with our students as the wealthy suburban districts! We are teaching in a desert!
2) "I feel like I've cheated it. I kinda feel like I owe it to myself to read some of these books, but I just know I don't have time. If there were 27 hours in day I'd read Hamlet. I know I would." -High school senior
Why don't you have time? What are you doing? You honestly think that if you had 3 extra hours each day, you would spend it reading? No, you wouldn't. You'd spend the newly found 3 hours playing a game or chatting with friends or maybe playing field hockey.
3) "I'm not saying cheating is ok. I'm saying cheating is something that you have to look at closer to see what is cheating and what is not cheating." -same social studies teacher
WHAT KIND OF TEACHER ARE YOU? You honestly think that copying and pasting off of SparkNotes is acceptable?
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Oh, I watched this last year, and I also totally hated that all that nonsense technology hype and the social studies teacher and his "enlightened" views on cheating. I blogged about part of it, but not the pedagogy part: http://foureyedgremlin.blogspot.com/2008/02/im-so-much-cooler-online.html
Yeah that social studies teacher was a little hyper dogmatic. There has to be some middle ground where we can use the awesome technology tools to further actual learning. But yeah the whole not reading books thing? 100% unacceptable!!!
I agree! I don't know that the students in the video were engaging in dangerous enough behavior to worry about stalkers, but I would DEFINITELY be concerned about not reading books.
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