David Warlick is one of the many EdTech bloggers I follow via RSS. Often times I worry about EdTech people (including myself) getting so wrapped up in the world of technology that we forget about bringing it back to the face-to-face world of education. On David’s recent post he addresses this concern:
Earlier in the morning, I spent a little time watching parts of several Poptech videos, and jotted down just a few comments. For instance, I’ll have to remember this one for when people say in my presentations, “Yeah, well, technology is great, but what about people.” Somebody in one of the panels, which was not introduced, said:
If humans weren’t important in education, libraries would never have evolved into universities.
I’ve heard this one before, but it was shared again by Will Wright, creator of The SIMS, and I wrote it down word by word.
There was a professor who went into a kindergarten class one day and asked students to raise their hands if they could dance. Of course they all raised their hands.
Draw? Sing? Again, they all raised their hands.
Then he went into a college class and asked the same questions of students there, and of course, no one raised their hands. He concluded that education is the process of teaching us what we can’t do.
Then I found this video on Youtube that shows the endless possibilities when we allow students to dream and be creative.
