C if for conversations…
In the article, The 21st Century Digital Learner, Marc Prensky states “We just don’t listen enough to our students.” He encourages us to listen to our students and to treat them as consumers of education. Big businesses spend huge sums of money to find out what their consumers think about their advertising and methods of delivery. We don’t need to spend huge sums of money but we do need to be willing to spend the time to ask, to listen and then to respond. Will we be surprised? Will we be chagrined? Will we be intrigued? Will we need to learn ways to integrate technology into our lessons? Probably yes to all. But the largest question to me is what do we lose when we don’t ask?
In the article, The 21st Century Digital Learner, Marc Prensky states “We just don’t listen enough to our students.” He encourages us to listen to our students and to treat them as consumers of education. Big businesses spend huge sums of money to find out what their consumers think about their advertising and methods of delivery. We don’t need to spend huge sums of money but we do need to be willing to spend the time to ask, to listen and then to respond. Will we be surprised? Will we be chagrined? Will we be intrigued? Will we need to learn ways to integrate technology into our lessons? Probably yes to all. But the largest question to me is what do we lose when we don’t ask?
C is for continual questioning.
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