Learning by Doing...

...and doing it digitally...especially using digital storytelling to tell this story! It's perfect. This extremely effective and inspiring video about 21st century learning tells how students want to be motivated to learn... it reminds me of wdydwyd, using images with text in it (although here they're moving images) to prove a point. I have not only watched this video several times, I've used it as well in at least one project for the Teaching with Technology class! I am always floored by some of the statistics in it, and how there are jobs that students today will have later in life that don't exist today. Because of this, as educators we must make sure that we're preparing our students as much as possible so that they're always on the cutting edge of knowledge. I believe very strongly in learning by doing, so I am always impacted whenever I see that one student who holds up the sign, "What are we learning by sitting here?"