Last year I attended Manor New Tech High School’s Think Forward Institute and saw a new type of learning environment. Going through the program prompted me to think about how this type of classroom setting was relevant, adaptable, applicable, and would it last to serve our students or be just a passing educational fad. My expectations for this course were to answer some of the questions I had asked myself and I learned that, because of how rapidly the world of information has changed, using technology and digital resources is the best way to teach our students. Marc Prensky states that “the brain changes and reorganizes itself differently, based on the input it receives” (Prensky, 2001). This article on changes in the brain made me see that we are in a mental evolutionary development stage of human history. To know that current student’s brains process information differently and therefore have physiological differences in processing proves that school must adapt in order to teach students subject matter that they need to know. And because this evolutionary change is learned, not inherited through DNA, reinforced my perspective that the classroom be a place to foster learning.
Prensky,M. (2001). Digital natives, digital immigrants: Part 2. On the Horizon , 9(6), 1-9.
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