From East Lansing to Detroit

Timing is everything.  Marc Prensky’s article “Listening to the Natives” is the perfect article to begin a course in teaching technology and/or encourage the use of technology in the classrooms.  He sites examples of how other countries are using more technology than the US.  As an example the use of cell phones to construct projects.

Then like a dropped call the thought, comment or paragraph ends there.  Prensky does not explain how, as an example, cell phones are used to create projects.  Most of the article explains how we need to collaborate with our students and decide what to teach with them.  For lack of better words, well duh!  Reaching out to our students so that we can teach them better is what good teachers do with or without a computer.

Prensky shows that he is very knowledgable and sincere.  I would be very interested in hearing him speak and read more of his works, but to quote a commicerial of my favorite fast food chain, “where’s the beef?”