Are You Already Outdated for Your Students?

I also want to ask: who seriously believe that locking twenty-five students and an adult in one small room for several hours a day, every day is the best way for students to acquire knowledge?  In China, there are far more than this number in one small classroom. I suffered more than 15 years of this to get into university. When I become a teacher, I do not want to let the next generation to replicate my experience.

I do not mean studying in classrooms is negative. However, the new generation is growing up in a totally different environment, which is more dynamic, colorful and more technical---they are living driven by smart phone, drive through, microwave,download-it-from-the internet,media. I know I must be innovative to keep their interest and to inspire them. Comparing to their spare time, it would be normal to show impatience to lectures for students.

  I really agree one sentence in the video"Educational Change Challenge": if you put a doctor of  a hundred years ago in today`s operating room, she would be lost; yet if you placed a teacher of  a hundred years ago into one of today`s classroom, she would n`t skip a beat. Education model`s change was dwarfed by the great change of technology. Teacher need to exist in the space the students exist, understand their culture.You have no credibility if you are not where they are. Therefore, multimedia teaching is an unavoidable tendency  in nowadays.