Preservation of Culture

Education has been defined by straight rows and children sitting and listening to a teacher for years.  Our culture expects students to go to school to learn how to read, write, and do arithmetic.  That is why we must keep our image of teacher standing in front of classroom telling the students what they need to know.  Our culture expects the teachers and the school systems to not only educate but make their students social creatures.  By that I mean, know how to speak and interact with students and adults in a school/work setting.  The education process is educationally accepted that the students would learn what they will need to learn academically for the rest of their lives.   Our culture has a simplistic old fashioned way of what they perceive education should do and provide.  Our new culture is a fast pasted digital world with students learning more on their own from video games than they do from their teachers.  I believe our culture is holding us back from progress.  The world is moving and changing at an exponential rate and we need to try to keep up.  That is that we need to educate our educators on how to educate in the 21st century.  We need to be using the technology that the students are using to help us to compete with the games that they are using to learn with. That brings me to the other question about “how does technology relate to learning”?The technology relates because that is how the students are learning now.  Technology is the new way of teaching and a better way to communicate with technology buff students.  Technology also relates to learning because that is the mean that most students learn with now.  We need to not only teach with technology innovations, but also show the students how to use technology to find any answers that they need to find.  So, technology relates in two ways.  One way is the process that they learn best in, hence they method that we need to be teaching with. Two is the world is using technology in all professions so we need to make sure our students are prepared for Skype, wordpress, video conferencing, googling, posting to youtube,  etc…  Our world revolves around communicating instantly with anyone all over the world, so we need to show students what is available to do that.