As I approach the end of my journey through the EDC3100 course, I find the need to reflect what I have learned about ICT's and pedagogy so far and I think that the picture above pretty much sums it up. Our students have changed radically. Today’s students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach. Today’s students have not just changed incrementally from those of the past; a really big discontinuity has taken place. One might even call it a singularity – an event which changes things so fundamentally that there is absolutely no going back. This so-called singularity is the arrival and rapid dissemination of digital technology. For a 21st-century teacher, giving lecture-style monologues to students who merely act as receptacles for information is no longer acceptable, nor does it work. Instead, learning should be fostered through dialogue in the classroom with an interactive exchange of ideas that engages students and promotes independent, original thought all while using the available technology that today's students know and love in order to really get students interacting and sharing ideas to enrich their educational growth. Technology has revolutionized education, are you ready to change the way you teach?
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