Technology in the classroom | Ethan Dickens | TEDxPascoCountySchoolsED
during my speech I will have the following pictures these pictures represent answers that are simple yes or no for you to answer and start with my speech I would like to ask you could you go a day without technology no I didn't think so because we use technology every day in places like the military we use it in school and we use it in cars we use it outside we use it inside we use it everywhere but could we or even should we use it in a classroom the place where we learn and we grow every single day now when you look at a technology you understand that an average child would use it about seven and a half hours daily consuming media with laptops smartphones video games anything so do you spend that much time on the Internet yeah that's so but what can technology do for us other than what it's already doing well you realize it can lift weights off shoulders and it create an interactive learning experience like no other that can even be better than teaching sometimes by real teachers now let's talk about that that learning are carrying a weight off a shoulder now if you look at this textbook that is a 10 approximately a 10 pound textbook now think if you had the 5 classes every day in a textbook per class that's about 50 pounds but the average boy that weighs 112 pounds should only have about 20% of what he weighs on his back so that's about 22 pounds compared 50 pounds to 22 eventually you're going to look like this dude and a lot of you already do hunched over walking around with big backpacks but if you were to take out your phone you would realize that this phone is only around 3 grams 3 grams all you have to do is click on an app your Safari button anything and go to a provider such as mcdougald inline textbooks or hope hope mcdougald pearson online or sometimes mcgraw-hill they all contain online textbooks at your disposal on your lightweight tiny phone now what what about that learning experience I'm sure some of you some of you have seen this mouse as sure the commercials are on there and save UC mouse and I bet you're wondering why it's on there because it's really meant for younger adult your kids like seven year olds five year olds pre-k students but if you realize this does bring the point up that you can create an interactive learning experience that does help using those five senses to learn so every time you go to remember these things everything they teach you you use those five senses everything so you will truly remember and if you look at the algebra nation students at my school dr. John long and I'm not sure if any other schools did this use something called algebra nation basically we got a textbook that we got to keep we wrote in it rewritten it we did everything but we'd also watch a video in this video there'd be a little man on the screen and he'd write on the same exact book so as we as we watch the video we would write it so we experienced it as we watch we listened to it and we sell it we saw it all happens so we use the three learning skills audio visually and actually doing it so we're getting 90% of everything into our brains so every time we remember it we're going to remember all of it and so as some of you might say well Ethan what is my child doing on the Internet what is he doing on these phones what is he doing on technology everything I don't want him to do he can too but look at that dinosaur he may not seem very friendly at first but on the Samsung phones you will recognize him because he is the kids mode and things in apps like this like Parenthood controls can control what your children do and create a safeguard for anybody on your technology on smartphones on computers so that way you don't have to worry about anything that's bad or criminal or maxing out your credit card so you go broke now you could be thinking about all the good technology does but if you realize the people here this generation kind of built it for us they said you can have it but the generation here they said no you can't use it but the generation here is the generation that builds up all of our superintendent's all of our people that create rules and to control our education but they may not understand what it's like for us they use technology because we were born in it because they they grew the children here these children the children here with it or the kids of this generation so they taught us better but they taught us differently they taught us the next generation like so together we can create a way for the older generations that do control our school systems to allow us to live like how we should like this generation allowed us to thank you