K12 Online Conference

I just finished watching a video in the archives of the K12 online conference series. It was created by Angela Maiers in December of 2009. The title was simply "Engaging Our Youngest Minds." It was an interesting video that seemed centered around the word "passion." It portrayed this image that children are born as active, engaged learners. Educators are responsible for recognizing that students come into the classroom ready to continue their learning, rather than begin it. A teachers job is to find what the student is already passionate about and apply that knowledge in a way that makes it exciting to the students and encourages them to learn the subject manner that we are trying to teach them. Technology is the TOOL that should be helping educators with this task, and not overshadowing the student or their passionate learning abilities.