This digital age and education
There's some digital energy in the air these days. Last week at the National Center for Technology Innovation annual conference, national speakers touted the importance of using technology to engage students, to capitalize on their approaches, to enhance their skills in this competitive global market. The following YouTube video on 21st Century Pedagogy captures this message nicely and again confirms its importance.
Today, I read in the Washington Post Metro Section, an article on the value of teacher's writing text chapters online in the article, "Stuck-in-the-Past Va. Physics Texts Getting Online Jolt" (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/29/AR2008112901809.html). Encouraging concepts that support the power of digital media for instructional purposes.