"The Machine is Us"

An educator is a guide. They do not have all the answers, they prompt you to think. They help us reach our full potential. An educator is not nessassarily a teacher. Anyone who helps us discover ourselves can be considered an educator.

My view of education takes place both within and outside the classroom doors. There are an exponential amount of life experiences that can educate you. The role of an educator such as a class room teacher is to aid in these life experiences. By giving assignments that actually make students think, they can apply what they are learning in a classroom to what they have learned by simply being alive. It is this sort of higher level thinking that will lead to success. Education should provide a student the ability and skills to think and make decisions for themselves that will help them reach their full potential; it is not just memorizing and spiting back globs of information.

Technology as a whole is growing, and quite possibly it's most important feature is that it links people together. I have friends now who are students in Romania, Italy, Japan, and Korea, thanks to modern technology. I know how different forms of education work, how daily life differs, and how alike and disalike we really are. This video clip shows that we are teaching eachother through technology. It helps support the ideals of higher level thinking, and allows us as both students and teachers to reach our potential while helping others reach theirs. All these educators, education as a whole, and the ability to link us all together are great benefits to our society as a whole. Being successful is a goal. With these prompts and guides, it is an obtainable one.