The Connected Classroom (video #9)

I had to watch this video a couple times to fully understand what it was trying to get at. After, the second time watching it, it really made sense to me. I think that as a teacher it is very important to connect with your students and actually prepare them for their world, the one that they will actually be living. The fact about China going to be the number one speaking country in the world really was crazy to me. That is suppose to be our dominant language and a country that is suppose to have a different dominant language is going to be speaking it more than us! That fact was really, really crazy to me! Another fact that was really crazy to me was the one where if we sent every single one of our jobs to China they would still have a labor surplus. I could not even believe that! To me it is so crazy to see how much things have changed over the last hundreds of years. We have came so far and have invented so much. I think it is so important to stay connected with your students, and to make sure that you are preparing them for what they really need to be prepared for. Some information we teach because we just "have to" but we need to make sure we are also teaching what is really beneficial for our students' lives! They will want to learn so much more if we stay connected with them!