"Shift Happens," as relayed to us in Did You Know; Shift Happens, one of the video files Dr. Siegel included in this weeks blog assignment, is a take off of another, eerily similar saying from the 1980's. The older of these sayings, referred to the Murphy's law of life: anything that can go wrong, it will go wrong.
"Shift happens," however, refers more to a pardigm shift, and shift in our way of thinking, and interrelating. Our way of interacting with others in our global population, is the primary focus of this shift. Speculation about the change in brain structue in students, for whom technology is the "mother's milk" of their social lives, has caused this idea of brain alteration. Unfortunately, the persons in charge of teaching these technically brilliant students are not up to the challenge, mostly because the technnology they are required to teach wasn't even invented until after they had completed college.
This video also include the scariest projections of our global future that I have ever seen or heard. To think that the current development of technologly is growing at such a pace, that college students just entering school can count on the technology available to them when they enter school, being obsolete when they reach their junior year. It seems as though technology is growing exponentially.
I also enjoyed the analogy of the video, Social Media in Plain English,which discussed the ever changing landcape of technology. The idea of forming friendships and social networking buddies based on interests is fascinating. It is ineresting also, that students who learn through networking, can establish these friends without ever meeting them in person, yet establish long lasting relationships based entirely on interest.
I believe that the paradigm shift needs to occur in schools rapidly, before the shift becomes a crevase, and then a cavern.
Reference List
lamybethhale (2008, October 21) Did You Know? [Video File]. Video posted to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL9Wu2kWwSY&feature=fvste1
leelefever (2008, May) Social Media in Plain English [Video File]. Video posted to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpIOClX1jPE
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