Digital Smarts

I recently viewed a short video of a high school teacher who explains her method of teaching as one where she employs every available technology to her students and allows them the opportunity to teach other students, as well as her, any new technology being made available. As the article I read earlier, Did You Know? Implies, this is an extremely innovative way of teaching since technology is being released every day, month, and year that is deleting what we learned yesterday. She also seems to be inline with Sir Ken Robinson’s lecture, “The Importance of Creativity”, which explains students need the opportunity to take risks and not be afraid to fail.
Our society is going to have to find a new way of encouraging entrepreneurship in the youth of America in order for technology to continue at the rate it has for the last 50 years. In the days when immigrants where coming to America these people were taking great risks already, and were not afraid of any new challenge. Students need to be encouraged not to be afraid of the unknown, but to grasp it tightly, hang on for the ride, and fight as hard as possible not to let go. I am moved by Ms. Davis’s passion for teaching, and foresight, to understand her position in these students lives is far more than a mere year of their presence in her classroom. She is preparing them for the working world in a very disguised and obvious way, I applaud her.