As Albert Einstein said “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”

Technology is changing so fast that our students will most likely be going into jobs that will use technology that doesn’t even exist yet!

As teachers of our future generations we must ensure that we provide a learning environment that allows the most creative, productive, thought inspiring, innovative and dynamic learning to take place.

This ‘Did you know 2.0‘ video has some very interesting and thought provoking ideas about what students of today will be facing in the near future.

This video from Allanah King in New Zealand is an inspiring short video about what teachers can do using social software in their classroom. At the start of the video she states that her school was able to fund Apple laptops that sit in a trolley that can be wheeled around to various classrooms. This idea is fantastic! This would be perfect for schools that do not have the capability to create a computer lab – the computer lab would be able to come to the classroom! I feel this is something Australian schools should investigate. Her enthusiasm for using social software in her class is evident as she explains all the various activities that she does with her students. It is obvious that she has taken the new technology on board and has been able to create new learning activities that can be easily integrated into her classroom curriculum.

I look forward to taking some of her ideas and implementing them into my own classroom!

* here is the link to “Appleby Airwaves” podcasting webpage

* here is the link to Allanah’s edublog

Found the following two videos on teacher tube and thought they were a good simple demonstration as to why teachers should encourage blogging in the classroom.

first video: Blogs in the classroom – making the web meaningful for education

second video: Why let our students blog?