Digital youth portrait

The best thing I liked in the stories of the children is to see how all these talented children are involved in the learning process. I especially liked Cameron the child who uses the green screen to make videos. He uses his love of technology in the learning process. And gives us a great example of how to use the students’ passion in order to motivate them to learn better. He helped his teacher to make the lesson more exciting and interesting and other students learned to use the green screen technology too. So the teacher is not the only one who teaches the learners but sometimes the students teach us too, so the learning goes both ways. All the stories taught me that these children have developed skills in “learning how to learn” by using their love and passion towards technology devices. And as a TEFL professional I realized that the learners learn better when they are interested in what they are learning. And they learn the best if the content relates to their own experiences, knowledge and interests. Another thing I realized is that learners have different styles and strategies and as TEFL professionals we must take that into consideration in developing our curriculum.

I think that the most amazing flattener is the Netscape. I liked the Netscape because it’s a great communication medium that made the Internet accessible to everyone. It creates a rich environment for learning especially the self-learning. For example the creation of the software and the internet millions of learners around the world had the opportunity to learn by themselves and even communicate to share their knowledge. So the Netscape really flattened the world by providing the education requirements of millions of learners all over the world.

The connection that I find between The Hole in the wall project and the other two sources is the use of Technology in educating the nations all over the world. The convergent of technology allowed so many countries to become part of the globalization. Another connection I find in them all is the self-learning of the learners by using the technology. And how to encourage the generations to develop nonstop learning process throughout their life time.