Success with the Net Generation

After reading chapter eight and thinking about how classrooms are evolving, I do not think it will be difficult for me to be successful with the net generation. I believe that to be successful with the net generation teachers need to be one step ahead of the students. We need to be up to date to the latest technology and interactive activities. If we can do this, then I believe there is a great possibility that we can get these students involved and wanting to participate in class. I know if I had interactive and online activities I would have been more interested. While reading this chapter I also thought about how cool it would be to have students have their pen pals online. If the school could contact a school somewhere else and the two classrooms could communicate via email, rather than having to write out a letter, then mail it, then wait for a response the students would be very excited and the writing would occur more often.

In chapter 8, it says if we want to be successful we need to step back and release a bit of the control. It always says how the students will be able to do science rather than just learn science or do history rather than just learn about it. If we do not embrace these advances then we will definitely fall behind. I also think that students know how to do many activities on the computer, but do not necessarily know the correct way. I think we need to refine what they know and make them better without them realizing that they are doing work.