Video Reflection: Pay Attention

"Pay attention to our children's intensely rich education experiences." I would say that sentence sums up the message this video was trying to get across. Children and adolescents are constantly plugged into electronic media, it is how they relax, socialize, communicate and have fun. The message that I get from this video is that if they are using electronic media for all this and more why not take advantage of it and make it a part of their learning as well. This is a concept that is not completely foreign to me, but I must admit there were some ideas listed that I would have never even considered. One example of this is using cell phones in class for an assignment. I would think this would be against many school policies yet I can see, especially as a potential language teacher, the positive response you could get from an activity such as this. It makes sense to allow children to learn through the media they use every day, rather than trying to force it down their throats in a way that is uninteresting and where the value of the information does not seem evident. I would agree that this is definitely one position where "if you cannot beat them you should join them" and I think this dependency on technology will only increase in the future.