K-12 students today are using Internet for most of the time they spend a day. They blog, play games, write a letter, listen to the music, and watch TV online. These things happen all the time in students’ lives and the Internet is always involved in their digital activities.
However, students still want to learn things more digitally, getting away from taking classes in which technology does not exist and makes them to merely pay attention to teachers. This is not the way of creative learning that we expect from our educational system either. What we really need for today's digital learners is to provide them a digital classroom. In this type of classroom, learners will finally be comfortable and happy with learning and thinking creatively.
Therefore, it is an important task for teachers to be able to plan their lessons involved in technology so that learners could consider learning as an interesting process of constructing knowledge, just like playing with the Internet. We can only make it possible within the active engagement of technology. The video, A Vision of K-12 Students Today, has a great inspiration in students' desire for digital learning.
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Yes, the key to good learning is finding ways to engage the students actively and digital resources can help us to that.
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