C4T #3

     I was required to comment on Edna Sackson's Blog. She works in Australia as a teaching and learning coordinator. Edna's first post that I read was about how she believes that teachers should be changing their focus from teaching to learning. Teacher's need to take a step back and realize what is going on around them within today's education system. They need to start embracing the technology that is available to them and their students. Edna believes that if teachers begin to learn how to incorporate new technology into their classrooms then the students will benefit tremendously, not to mention it could make the teachers' life a little easier at times.

     The second post I read of Edna's blog was based on a documentary about a woman who traveled the world interviewing eleven year old children. She asks the kids all kinds of questions and she receives all sorts of different answers. The point of the film however is to peak inside the minds of a pre-teen, when they're at the tender stage on the edge of the world just waiting to dive in, and see what they want to happen in the world and their opinions about the "big" issues that surround us all on the newsstands. Some kids wanted peace and to be rid of inequalities, which is perhaps why Edna purposed the question, "what would you do if you could change the world?" This blog was really inspiring and got me to think about what I would do if I was ever given an opportunity to impact the world. Then I started thinking even more and it's a shame that I automatically think I can't make a difference. The children in the video gleam of hope and belief, we should learn to think like them and start acting on our desires of change.