One part of my assignment for this blog was to watch Mr. Winkle Wakes by Matthew Needleman. It is the story of Mr. Winkle who awakes from a 100 year slumber. While he slept everything around him changed. The world became digital to the point that it sickened him. It wasn't until Mr. Winkle walked into a school building and into a classroom that he felt familiarity and belonging. It was there that he felt little change and the comfort that he was looking for. This short story of Mr. Winkle portrays the urgency for the change that is needed in education. It is impossible to go year to year and not evolve and this includes education.
Students have evolved and are now living in a digital world more than ever. It is time that education and the way that we teach the younger generations evolves too. Technology is the world that we live in now. We have to jump on the digital bandwagon or we will be doing our students a severe injustice. We can not properly prepare them for life if we do not integrate technology into our classrooms and the way that we educate. It is impossible to evaluate students based on a test score and unfortunately this is how the education system is doing it. It is imperative that changes be made, in many different ways. Matthew Needleman makes an excellent point in Mr. Winkle Wakes; no matter what is going on, things are always changing and we must be willing to change to….even in education.
~Morgan
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