Sunday, May 8, 2011
Monday, May 2, 2011
C4T final
The teacher I was assigned to Eric Langhorst from Liberty Missouri. He is an eighth grade history teacher who is very passionate in improving history through technology. He really uses technology in his classroom to help his students learn. His blog is full or videos, slideshows, podcasts, and other examples of lessons of how technology is helpful in the classroom. It's interesting because he doesn't really focus on the classroom, he focuses on just the subject history. He discusses how much more we can learn about history through social networks with other people around the world. Which I think would be really interesting to hear or read other countries point of views on history such as wars.
The first post I commented on was a slideshow on how social networking can benefit learning history in the classroom . Social Media and history classroom is a really great slide show that is very detailed on the many different ways to use social networking to enrich the curriculum. He uses social medias as examples such as; twitter, posts, flickr, youtube, and skype. Twitter is a way to get responses you never thought you would get in under 144 characters, with people around the world. Posts are great for direct messages, replies, discover great articles, share links, and ask people questions. Flickr is really great for history to be able to look up pictures in history. Youtube is great for the classroom to be able to look up videos and lesson plans that other teachers have created. Skype is also a great social tool for the whole classroom, because you can contribute and collaborate as a classroom. He had a quote on there "Facebook is for the people you once know, twitter is for the people you want to know" I thought that was interesting, because it is true you normally look up people on facebook that you have known in your past. Twitter is all about discovering new people and following people that you have never met and probably never will meet(celebrities).
The next post I viewed was Not your dads history class. This was another slide show of how technology can be useful in the classroom. He starts it off by asking the question, Why use technology in the history classroom? His answer was "It had the potential to make history more personal for your students. His slide show has four major points; communication, collaboration, content, and creation.Communication can start with google apps, help students, setup shop, and getting help from the experts. Collaboration can start out by twitter, creating PLN's, debate, skype, be social, dream, tours, and the best practice is to share with other people. Content is to invite others into the classroom who have been through war and demonstrate how to use technology in the classroom. That way the content is appropriate for the students. Creation is when the students come into play...it's time for lights, camera, action. Let the students create and imagine how every they want!
I really encourage everyone to look at his blog, especially if your intersted in history. It gives great examples of how technology can and should be used in the classroom.
The first post I commented on was a slideshow on how social networking can benefit learning history in the classroom . Social Media and history classroom is a really great slide show that is very detailed on the many different ways to use social networking to enrich the curriculum. He uses social medias as examples such as; twitter, posts, flickr, youtube, and skype. Twitter is a way to get responses you never thought you would get in under 144 characters, with people around the world. Posts are great for direct messages, replies, discover great articles, share links, and ask people questions. Flickr is really great for history to be able to look up pictures in history. Youtube is great for the classroom to be able to look up videos and lesson plans that other teachers have created. Skype is also a great social tool for the whole classroom, because you can contribute and collaborate as a classroom. He had a quote on there "Facebook is for the people you once know, twitter is for the people you want to know" I thought that was interesting, because it is true you normally look up people on facebook that you have known in your past. Twitter is all about discovering new people and following people that you have never met and probably never will meet(celebrities).
The next post I viewed was Not your dads history class. This was another slide show of how technology can be useful in the classroom. He starts it off by asking the question, Why use technology in the history classroom? His answer was "It had the potential to make history more personal for your students. His slide show has four major points; communication, collaboration, content, and creation.Communication can start with google apps, help students, setup shop, and getting help from the experts. Collaboration can start out by twitter, creating PLN's, debate, skype, be social, dream, tours, and the best practice is to share with other people. Content is to invite others into the classroom who have been through war and demonstrate how to use technology in the classroom. That way the content is appropriate for the students. Creation is when the students come into play...it's time for lights, camera, action. Let the students create and imagine how every they want!
I really encourage everyone to look at his blog, especially if your intersted in history. It gives great examples of how technology can and should be used in the classroom.
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
PLN Final Project
Here is my PLN final project. If you look closely you can see I have each section organized into fours and organized accordingly. The right side of the PLN is all my extra recreational sites I like to look at. The top middle are my email accounts and social networking sites. The middle bottom is my EDM class sites and medical sites. The left is all of my educational sites I like to visit! This by far was my favorite project and I will continue to use it, because it is so convenient.
Blog Post #14
1. Why did you miss the metaphor in Tom Johnson's post, or, if you "hit the nail on the head", why do you think you understood the metaphor and why do you think that others in the class missed the metaphor?
I completely missed the metaphor in Tom Johnson's post mainly because I just wasn't paying attention. If I would have put into consideration that we are in a class built around technology, then I probably would have noticed that the pencils were actually the computers. That really explains why I was so confused when reading the post. I didn't really understand what the problem was with the principal getting mad about pencils. I do remember for a second thinking maybe it had to do with something else, but computers never clicked in my head. It all makes sense now, and I do think taking computers home seem scary and tricky but it can help the students. Suprisingly enough not all students have a computer at home, so if they can take them home then they can continue learning about technology.
2. What metaphors have you encountered since I asked you to create a log of them?
These are some that I have heard lately- "You are my sunshine", "I'm so hungry I might eat my arm off", "I look like trash", "I'm so tired, I am going to roll over and die", "She's poison", "it's like a zoo in here", "I would walk a mile on broken glass to fall at your feet." "She's shaped like a bottle", "I just ate a cow". These are just a few of the metaphors that we have all heard at least one time. I heard a lot in songs, actually that's pretty much all songs are is a bunch of metaphors. This post would be a mile long if I wrote down every metaphor I have heard in music recently. We hear metaphors all day everyday, we just don't always realize that they are matephors.
3. What other things can we do as educators to help our students to understand and to use metaphors?
Well for starters, I think I need to start off with myself making sure I can recognize metaphors. I should have been able to target that metaphor when reading it, but I didn't have an open mind when I was doing the assignment. I had a one track mind and that was read the post and respond. As educators we can start by giving fun examples to students to help them understand what exactly they are. I remember learning metaphors with a cut and dry example and that was the rule for it and what was in the book. I remember learning the difference between similies and metaphors and to notice words such as "like" in between the words. It obviously didn't help too much, because I completely missed it. Kids always remember things when they have done activities with them and the lesson is made fun! Not just with metaphors, but with everything we teach our students, there needs to be fun involved.
4. Why do we use metaphors?
We use metaphors as a way of comparing something and an exaggeration. Metaphors are also used to be humerous, because you will compare your hunger to eating a cow. I know I have said lots of metaphors that have made people laugh because they are so over exaggerated. They can be used to be serious, poets always use metaphors and compare them to serious things such as the world, sun, moon. They are also very mysterious, and are used to keep the reader confused about what exactly the story is about.
I really enjoyd this post, because it has made me have an open mind when reading or listening to things to see if metaphors are there. Metaphors can make a story have a complete other meaning if we don't pay attention to them.
I completely missed the metaphor in Tom Johnson's post mainly because I just wasn't paying attention. If I would have put into consideration that we are in a class built around technology, then I probably would have noticed that the pencils were actually the computers. That really explains why I was so confused when reading the post. I didn't really understand what the problem was with the principal getting mad about pencils. I do remember for a second thinking maybe it had to do with something else, but computers never clicked in my head. It all makes sense now, and I do think taking computers home seem scary and tricky but it can help the students. Suprisingly enough not all students have a computer at home, so if they can take them home then they can continue learning about technology.
2. What metaphors have you encountered since I asked you to create a log of them?
These are some that I have heard lately- "You are my sunshine", "I'm so hungry I might eat my arm off", "I look like trash", "I'm so tired, I am going to roll over and die", "She's poison", "it's like a zoo in here", "I would walk a mile on broken glass to fall at your feet." "She's shaped like a bottle", "I just ate a cow". These are just a few of the metaphors that we have all heard at least one time. I heard a lot in songs, actually that's pretty much all songs are is a bunch of metaphors. This post would be a mile long if I wrote down every metaphor I have heard in music recently. We hear metaphors all day everyday, we just don't always realize that they are matephors.
3. What other things can we do as educators to help our students to understand and to use metaphors?
Well for starters, I think I need to start off with myself making sure I can recognize metaphors. I should have been able to target that metaphor when reading it, but I didn't have an open mind when I was doing the assignment. I had a one track mind and that was read the post and respond. As educators we can start by giving fun examples to students to help them understand what exactly they are. I remember learning metaphors with a cut and dry example and that was the rule for it and what was in the book. I remember learning the difference between similies and metaphors and to notice words such as "like" in between the words. It obviously didn't help too much, because I completely missed it. Kids always remember things when they have done activities with them and the lesson is made fun! Not just with metaphors, but with everything we teach our students, there needs to be fun involved.
4. Why do we use metaphors?
We use metaphors as a way of comparing something and an exaggeration. Metaphors are also used to be humerous, because you will compare your hunger to eating a cow. I know I have said lots of metaphors that have made people laugh because they are so over exaggerated. They can be used to be serious, poets always use metaphors and compare them to serious things such as the world, sun, moon. They are also very mysterious, and are used to keep the reader confused about what exactly the story is about.
I really enjoyd this post, because it has made me have an open mind when reading or listening to things to see if metaphors are there. Metaphors can make a story have a complete other meaning if we don't pay attention to them.
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Blog Post #14
For Blog Post #14 we looked at the ALEX-Alabama Learning Exchange. What a great website with lots of valuable information for teachers. I looked through the different subjects and looked through the learning standard rubrics of what was expected for each grade level. I looked especially at the Technology Education standards. I started with the K-2 grade level and things such as familiarity of the keyboard, mouse and monitor, position of your hands with the keyboard and computer were the requirements. I then looked at levels 9-12 and the requirements were more like learning how to access data and familiarity with the computer softwares. I then went on to look at the section with podcasts that have been uploaded about different subjects. There was a video by some students in Fairhope about how to use Microsoft Word 2003 and how set up your word for MLA format papers. It was a very useful video created by the students, because I know until I took a computer class I was pretty much clueless on how to do certain things with Microsoft Word. ALEX is really helpful in giving details about all the standards required by the state of Alabama. When you look at the rubrics, if you notice to the left there are hyperlinks that will take you to lesson plans that have to do with the certain standard.
ACCESS was designed to give all students an equal opportunity to distance learning such as foreign languages and technology in the classroom. One of the first objectives is to enhance technology in the classroom for the teachers and students to help better instruction. Another objective is to provide additional courses and electives for students to help meet individual educational goals. It is also intended to provide a comprehensive curriculum, which includes useful 21st century skills. There is also an objective to develop professional devolopment in technology for the people involved in ACCESS Distance Leanring. I noticed that alot of the objectives all pertain to the students and teachers having access to technology. It seems that ACCESS objective is to promote equality for all students in the public school system and also prepare students for the future. It seems that they are very aware that technology is in our future and the students need to learn as much about it as possible to be prepared!
ACCESS was designed to give all students an equal opportunity to distance learning such as foreign languages and technology in the classroom. One of the first objectives is to enhance technology in the classroom for the teachers and students to help better instruction. Another objective is to provide additional courses and electives for students to help meet individual educational goals. It is also intended to provide a comprehensive curriculum, which includes useful 21st century skills. There is also an objective to develop professional devolopment in technology for the people involved in ACCESS Distance Leanring. I noticed that alot of the objectives all pertain to the students and teachers having access to technology. It seems that ACCESS objective is to promote equality for all students in the public school system and also prepare students for the future. It seems that they are very aware that technology is in our future and the students need to learn as much about it as possible to be prepared!
C4K #7-10
C4K #7:
For C4K #7 I was assigned to a post called "Haikus and History" on Mr. McClung's class blog. He had a history lesson on the Trail of Tears and had the students make haikus about the Trail of Tears from what they learned. He posted some of the student's work on the post. On this post it gave a brief history of the Trail of Tears and what exactly happened along with a picture. Mr. McClung then showed some of the student's haikus. The haikus were only a few sentences long, but got the point across of what happened in the Trail of Tears. I was so impressed with Mr. McClung's class blog and his students; he really knows what he's doing with his students!
C4K#8:
For C4K #8 I was assigned to Mrs. Pike's classblog for Year 6 at Epping Heights. I was assigned to the student Cohen, but when I went back to look over it again I couldn't access his blog. I looked over the rest of the blog and left a comment. The students were learning about the rainforest at the beggining of April and they made this thing on "photopeach" with pictures of them doing tasks that have to deal with rainforests. They picture show would have pictures of the student's art work, blogging, workin together in the class, and other activities that go along with rainforest. I am going to go look up this photopeach, because I thought it was a really cool way to display your pictures!
C4K #9
For C4K #9 we were assigned to Mrs. Yollis's class blog for our assignment. Mrs. Yollis reminded me alot of Mr. McClung, because they both have their students really involved in blogging. All of the students had great blogs that were very detailed and all correct spelling, of course! We watched the video on blogging and if I didn't know how to use blogs, the video would have been very helpful in how to blog. It was helpful to watch the video anyways though, because we learned how she likes for people to leave comments on their post. I never really payed attention that on firefox it shows you when your misspelling a word. I guess I never noticed the difference compared to what internet explorer does. I looked through the blog and I read one of the posts about copyrighting and she did a really good job of using an example of the student's art work with other people's names on it. The children were in the picture with mad faces because their art work had someone else's name on it. I just thought it was a great example that it's not okay to copy someone else's work. I also like the HTML code post, it was really helpful because I have a really hard time with the HTML codes. I always manage to break the code and it won't let me post. I can't ever figure out what I am doing wrong. She asked us if we thought blogging has an effect on your writing skills? I think it helps the students use their writing skills, because if their teacher requires it to all be correct then they are getting practice. The students don't have to write essays to get practice and prove they know their grammatical "rules". They can use their blogs to show their teachers they know the information. I know that I pay attention to it, especially on her blog. I made sure I was spelling everything right, because as future teachers we should be modeling correct spelling and pronuciation.
C4K #10-
For C4K # 10 I was assigned to Miriam, one of Mrs. Yollis's students. The post I read was about her going to the Farmers Market and getting to try all of the fruits that were native to the island. They got a chance to cut open and try all of the different fruits, I wish I could do that with every food. I always say that I wish I could just try everything on the menu. On Miriam's post she listed numerous fruits with a picture and descriptions. She really knew a lot of information about all of the fruits she tried and had great pictures to go along with them. She had a picture of a star fruit and I think that one would be my favorite, because when you cut the fruit it is in the shape of a star. Miriam said that the star fruit was her favorite, because of it's shape and it was really sweet. The island really has some interesting looking fruit to eat, some of it I would have never throught it was a fruit, because it looked more like a flower. The only fruit I had heard of or tasted was the avacoda. Miriam's post was probably the most detailed and well layed out blog I have looked at. When I first looked at the post I thought it was just talking about one fruit, but I scrolled down and there was at least ten more fruits that she wrote about.
I really enjoyed doing the C4K this semester, it's great to talk to people around the world, especially young students. When I become a teacher, I am going to try to get my students started with blogging. It might be hard if the computer access is limited, but I will work with what I have! I am really excited, because I know that blogging and technology is such an awesome tool in the classroom. There's so much to learn and now we can talk to other students and teachers around the world to learn even more. I think students blogging with other students around the world makes it exciting to learn for them. I know I would get so excited to be able to talk to other students in another country. Thanks for this oppurtunity!
For C4K #7 I was assigned to a post called "Haikus and History" on Mr. McClung's class blog. He had a history lesson on the Trail of Tears and had the students make haikus about the Trail of Tears from what they learned. He posted some of the student's work on the post. On this post it gave a brief history of the Trail of Tears and what exactly happened along with a picture. Mr. McClung then showed some of the student's haikus. The haikus were only a few sentences long, but got the point across of what happened in the Trail of Tears. I was so impressed with Mr. McClung's class blog and his students; he really knows what he's doing with his students!
C4K#8:
For C4K #8 I was assigned to Mrs. Pike's classblog for Year 6 at Epping Heights. I was assigned to the student Cohen, but when I went back to look over it again I couldn't access his blog. I looked over the rest of the blog and left a comment. The students were learning about the rainforest at the beggining of April and they made this thing on "photopeach" with pictures of them doing tasks that have to deal with rainforests. They picture show would have pictures of the student's art work, blogging, workin together in the class, and other activities that go along with rainforest. I am going to go look up this photopeach, because I thought it was a really cool way to display your pictures!
C4K #9
For C4K #9 we were assigned to Mrs. Yollis's class blog for our assignment. Mrs. Yollis reminded me alot of Mr. McClung, because they both have their students really involved in blogging. All of the students had great blogs that were very detailed and all correct spelling, of course! We watched the video on blogging and if I didn't know how to use blogs, the video would have been very helpful in how to blog. It was helpful to watch the video anyways though, because we learned how she likes for people to leave comments on their post. I never really payed attention that on firefox it shows you when your misspelling a word. I guess I never noticed the difference compared to what internet explorer does. I looked through the blog and I read one of the posts about copyrighting and she did a really good job of using an example of the student's art work with other people's names on it. The children were in the picture with mad faces because their art work had someone else's name on it. I just thought it was a great example that it's not okay to copy someone else's work. I also like the HTML code post, it was really helpful because I have a really hard time with the HTML codes. I always manage to break the code and it won't let me post. I can't ever figure out what I am doing wrong. She asked us if we thought blogging has an effect on your writing skills? I think it helps the students use their writing skills, because if their teacher requires it to all be correct then they are getting practice. The students don't have to write essays to get practice and prove they know their grammatical "rules". They can use their blogs to show their teachers they know the information. I know that I pay attention to it, especially on her blog. I made sure I was spelling everything right, because as future teachers we should be modeling correct spelling and pronuciation.
C4K #10-
For C4K # 10 I was assigned to Miriam, one of Mrs. Yollis's students. The post I read was about her going to the Farmers Market and getting to try all of the fruits that were native to the island. They got a chance to cut open and try all of the different fruits, I wish I could do that with every food. I always say that I wish I could just try everything on the menu. On Miriam's post she listed numerous fruits with a picture and descriptions. She really knew a lot of information about all of the fruits she tried and had great pictures to go along with them. She had a picture of a star fruit and I think that one would be my favorite, because when you cut the fruit it is in the shape of a star. Miriam said that the star fruit was her favorite, because of it's shape and it was really sweet. The island really has some interesting looking fruit to eat, some of it I would have never throught it was a fruit, because it looked more like a flower. The only fruit I had heard of or tasted was the avacoda. Miriam's post was probably the most detailed and well layed out blog I have looked at. When I first looked at the post I thought it was just talking about one fruit, but I scrolled down and there was at least ten more fruits that she wrote about.
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Progress Report on Final Project
Me and my partner, Trey Moehler have looked over Dr. Strange's suggestions on what to do for our final project. We are deciding between a couple of ideas, between involving teachers and students and teaching them with technology. We haven't decided which one to choose, but I think teaching a teacher about technology could be really useful for them to teach their students. As we have seen in many of the videos we have watched, more teachers need to be technological literate!
Blog Post 12
Social Media in the classroom- Watch this video by Eric Langhorst on how Social Media can be used in the classroom through technology. This video is very helpful in describing how to make use of twitter, facebook, flickr, and other social media sites to use in the classroom. This video is about his history class and how they can use the social media to learn and discuss history with people from all over the world the social media.
I really enjoyed this video and I think ya'll will find it very helpful if you are still having any problems with understanding social media and how they all work. Also go to his website http://speakingofhistory.blogspot.com/ to look at his other helpful tools on how to use social media.
I really enjoyed this video and I think ya'll will find it very helpful if you are still having any problems with understanding social media and how they all work. Also go to his website http://speakingofhistory.blogspot.com/ to look at his other helpful tools on how to use social media.
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Blog Post #11
The first graders are really lucky that they are given an oppurtunity to have computers in their classroom that allow them to learn about technology and be able to blog and use other networks. I think computers should be in the classroom for every student, because I think technology fascinates children and keeps them interested. Going to computer class in elementary school was always something I looked forward to doing, because it was something different then staring at a chalkboard all day. Children are so fortunate to have technology like they do these days. It's such a dramatic difference within the past few years of what technology has brought to the classroom. I never thought there would be a touch screen interactive board that replaced the chalkboard. Those weren't around when I was in school and that was only a couple of years ago. I can't wait to see what technology brings to the classroom by the time I am a teacher!
Mrs. Cassidy's skype interview gave some great advice about how to "get to know technology." Like we have learned through many other videos we have watched, they all say "technology isn't going anywhere, it's here to stay". Technology is different than it was five years ago, and teachers need to learn how to use technology to help develop the use of technology in their classroom. I don't think teachers realize how much can be done through technology to help their students in the classroom. She gave some great advice, that we need to find what fits for us to get started being involved in technology. If you like to watch videos than get a youtube account and start searching videos that your interested in. If you like photography than start using flicker. If you like to read, then maybe blogging is good for you to keep you interested. After you get a good idea of what's going on with these websites, you can then start to play around with the websites to help you learn. It's not going to mess up your computer or hurt anything to just try and figure it out yourself. Twitter is also very useful for people to use to stay connected all over the world. I still have a hard time getting used to twitter, but I am starting to learn how to use it a little better and grasp the whole concept of twitter. There was recently a episode of Grey's Anatomy that was all about using twitter and how tweeting in the operating room helped save someones life, because they were constantly updating the tweet of what was going on, then fellow doctors would give advice and ideas of what to do. I think that's what really opened up my eyes to the use of twitter.
Project #14-Teach someone
I decided to teach someone how to make a Personal Learning Network. I chose this because it has been my favorite project we have done in EDM 310. I found that the Personal Learning Network was very useful in helping me stay organized with my websites. I hope you find the instructions on how to create a Personal Learning Network helpful and useful in creating your own!
C4k Assignment-Special
Mr. McClung's class blog is full of so much useful information, not just about education but extra curricular links. I really enjoyed reading his section about him, it makes him more personal. When I say that, I mean that his blog is very serious, full of details about educational, technology, and other useful links. When you read about him and what his interests are, it kinda opens it up that he's just like any other person who likes to have a good time and loves music. He has alot of same interests that I do in music and movies!
As an educator, he is definitely going in the right direction, he ensures that his classroom has a good time while at the same time learning how to take school seriously. He allows technology to to help the kids learning in the classroom. He's a great educator that I am more than sure has great success with his students.
He is definitely strict in the classroom, he gives the children a few chances to turn in their work; still with consequences though and that consequence is a dropping letter grade every day that it's late. He also requires the students to be up to date on their classblogs. Their classblog is what they use as their classroom newsletter for the students and parents to read. I think that it is such a great tool to use, so parents can know what's going on in their children's classroom everyday. Children often forget things that they are supposed to go home and remind their parents about, but with the newsletter available at anytime with classroom updates gives the parents a chance to be involved. This is also a better way to get in touch with the teacher, because I know that can be hard trying to get your parents in touch with the teacher. The parents can just comment on the page and ask questions that can be answered quickly, instead of waiting on a phone call. His classroom rules seem very laid back and easy to follow. I think it's really great that he uses gestures in the classroom to get his students involved. It makes it a little more exciting in the classroom if the teacher requires you to make gestures in response to him to let him know your paying attention. His rules seem a little bit more strict than Dr. Strange's, but like in the video we watched about procrastinating; having late work is not encouraged and their will be penalties. I think it's funny how one of his rules are to make his "dear teach happy".
Everyone needs is the first thing under the syllabus and the first thing is a planner. I'm not sure if this was another metaphoric thing that were supposed to look at since part of the assignment is to comment on what everyone needs means. I know that if the planner was one of them that we are supposed to look at, then a planner is a must in the classroom to help the students stay organized. Planners are always important to help students stay organized through their classwork.
What he hopes to accomplish with this classblog is to share his classrooms work and have people be able to view what is going on in the classroom. He writes that he welcomes comments on their blog, which I think is really good that he encourages them because sometimes I wonder if people enjoy comments we post. I viewed down his wall and I noticed where he thanked Dr. Strange's EDM 310 class for all the comments. I noticed that they print off the comments and put them on the map. I'm sure the kids really enjoy reading the comments from older college students from Alabama.
I looked under the useful links and the two that I really liked were two websites; convince me and twitter news. Convince me is a website and it's about debating, topics are put up and you can vote which side you agree on and then comment with a response that can convince person to see your side of the argument. The twitter news was really cool, because you can have a newsletter set up that shows you twitter updates that are interested in what you like. I looked at one for Forbes and it had updates all about Forbes.
I liked the Edublog, I am not sure about the differences that blogger can use compared to Edublog. His blog has some really cool things on it; like the availability to chat with him, live feed tracker, google translate, song of the week, facebook like button and many more things. I like the live feed tracker, because it shows when people around the world have viewed his blog. I really want totake the time and learn how to put all these things onto my blog. Learning about these blogs really makes me want to have my students involved in blogging.
These students differ from other ones, because this blog is very detailed and you can tell the children are very technology literate. This is such a great knowledge to have in the classroom, these children will have no problem communicating through technology when they are through with Mr. McClung's class. I noticed the slideshare application that he uses for his classroom newsletter. I'm going to look further into that, because I really liked the set up. Mr. McClung is going to be a successful teacher and is a great educator. I would love to be a teacher like him one day, his classroom is reaching out to people around the United States and world showing great examples of how technology can improve the classroom!!
As an educator, he is definitely going in the right direction, he ensures that his classroom has a good time while at the same time learning how to take school seriously. He allows technology to to help the kids learning in the classroom. He's a great educator that I am more than sure has great success with his students.
He is definitely strict in the classroom, he gives the children a few chances to turn in their work; still with consequences though and that consequence is a dropping letter grade every day that it's late. He also requires the students to be up to date on their classblogs. Their classblog is what they use as their classroom newsletter for the students and parents to read. I think that it is such a great tool to use, so parents can know what's going on in their children's classroom everyday. Children often forget things that they are supposed to go home and remind their parents about, but with the newsletter available at anytime with classroom updates gives the parents a chance to be involved. This is also a better way to get in touch with the teacher, because I know that can be hard trying to get your parents in touch with the teacher. The parents can just comment on the page and ask questions that can be answered quickly, instead of waiting on a phone call. His classroom rules seem very laid back and easy to follow. I think it's really great that he uses gestures in the classroom to get his students involved. It makes it a little more exciting in the classroom if the teacher requires you to make gestures in response to him to let him know your paying attention. His rules seem a little bit more strict than Dr. Strange's, but like in the video we watched about procrastinating; having late work is not encouraged and their will be penalties. I think it's funny how one of his rules are to make his "dear teach happy".
Everyone needs is the first thing under the syllabus and the first thing is a planner. I'm not sure if this was another metaphoric thing that were supposed to look at since part of the assignment is to comment on what everyone needs means. I know that if the planner was one of them that we are supposed to look at, then a planner is a must in the classroom to help the students stay organized. Planners are always important to help students stay organized through their classwork.
What he hopes to accomplish with this classblog is to share his classrooms work and have people be able to view what is going on in the classroom. He writes that he welcomes comments on their blog, which I think is really good that he encourages them because sometimes I wonder if people enjoy comments we post. I viewed down his wall and I noticed where he thanked Dr. Strange's EDM 310 class for all the comments. I noticed that they print off the comments and put them on the map. I'm sure the kids really enjoy reading the comments from older college students from Alabama.
I looked under the useful links and the two that I really liked were two websites; convince me and twitter news. Convince me is a website and it's about debating, topics are put up and you can vote which side you agree on and then comment with a response that can convince person to see your side of the argument. The twitter news was really cool, because you can have a newsletter set up that shows you twitter updates that are interested in what you like. I looked at one for Forbes and it had updates all about Forbes.
I liked the Edublog, I am not sure about the differences that blogger can use compared to Edublog. His blog has some really cool things on it; like the availability to chat with him, live feed tracker, google translate, song of the week, facebook like button and many more things. I like the live feed tracker, because it shows when people around the world have viewed his blog. I really want totake the time and learn how to put all these things onto my blog. Learning about these blogs really makes me want to have my students involved in blogging.
These students differ from other ones, because this blog is very detailed and you can tell the children are very technology literate. This is such a great knowledge to have in the classroom, these children will have no problem communicating through technology when they are through with Mr. McClung's class. I noticed the slideshare application that he uses for his classroom newsletter. I'm going to look further into that, because I really liked the set up. Mr. McClung is going to be a successful teacher and is a great educator. I would love to be a teacher like him one day, his classroom is reaching out to people around the United States and world showing great examples of how technology can improve the classroom!!
Friday, April 1, 2011
C4T-#3
The blog I was assigned to was SpeEdChange, the owner of the blog is Ira David Sokol. The idea of this blog is "the future of Education for all different students in democratic societies." This first blog I chose to read about was about Unions. This teacher, Ira really gave a great explanation of what exactly a Union is. People are in Unions a lot more than they think are. Unions are what give people advantages today such as; livable wages, vacation time, lunch breaks, sick time, and working hour rages. Ira's mother actually helped start the "American Federation for Teachers" in her district back in the 1960's. It helped create tenure, jobrights, lunch time, and planning time. This union gave teachers a voice and helped lead to highly successful educational innovations. This blog was very informative on the Unions, I actually didn't know that teachers were formed by a Union and to do this day, I am assuming are still a Union because of our benefits. It's amazes me when people do things to help other people that actually end up changing history. I commented on his blog stating how impressed and awesome it was that his mother actually helped start that Union in their area. His mother helped to make sure that teachers got the benefits and were respected as teachers.
The next blog I commented on was called Pedagogy 101, it was a poem and I would like to share it on here.
Suited (I thought) and tied,
earnest as the day was very long,
I taught them when to be still,
why they needed to listen,
where Columbus was born,
how to answer textbook questions
and what the similarity was
between my decrees and their grades.
Sitting at bolted desks
while flies rambled on tall windows
they taught me when to shut my mouth,
why I needed to hear,
where they were coming from,
how to question textbook answers,
and what the difference is
between schooling and education.
If I read right, the first part of the poem is talking about the struggles of teaching the students and the second half is the struggle of listening to the teacher. This poem really gets to the point, because students are just expected to sit back and be quiet and listen to the teachers all day long. Students always wonder, why do I have to know all this, especially stuff that happened over 500 hundred years ago. The teacher actually learns from the students in the second part of them poem, it's kinda reversed. I really enjoyed this poem, I have it saved to my computer to go back and read because it relates to some of the other classes I have taken dealing with students and teachers relationship in the classroom!
The next blog I commented on was called Pedagogy 101, it was a poem and I would like to share it on here.
Suited (I thought) and tied,
earnest as the day was very long,
I taught them when to be still,
why they needed to listen,
where Columbus was born,
how to answer textbook questions
and what the similarity was
between my decrees and their grades.
Sitting at bolted desks
while flies rambled on tall windows
they taught me when to shut my mouth,
why I needed to hear,
where they were coming from,
how to question textbook answers,
and what the difference is
between schooling and education.
If I read right, the first part of the poem is talking about the struggles of teaching the students and the second half is the struggle of listening to the teacher. This poem really gets to the point, because students are just expected to sit back and be quiet and listen to the teachers all day long. Students always wonder, why do I have to know all this, especially stuff that happened over 500 hundred years ago. The teacher actually learns from the students in the second part of them poem, it's kinda reversed. I really enjoyed this poem, I have it saved to my computer to go back and read because it relates to some of the other classes I have taken dealing with students and teachers relationship in the classroom!
Blog Post #10
An open letter to educators- Revolution of Technology. "The institutional schools need to get into the new revolution, if not they will one day fail." Every classroom should have the access to communication through technology. This is hard because not every school has the money to offer students the oppurtunity to have awesome technology in the classroom and unfortunalty some schools would prefer it stay that way. Internet saves people money, its free as he said. We can do things on our own now just by simply looking up on the internet, that we used to have other people to do for us. The community needs to help the institutional education(schools) get all the technological tools they need. This is like he used in the example, that the institutional schools are just like the days of "Kings and Queens" when only people with the most money or that were born into the kingdom got the best of things. Education is about creativity and empowering students. Dan Brown makes a good point that school is most of the time all about memorizing. I have had so many classes where I have just say in class and either played on my phone or wanted to fall asleep because I was so bored. I would do this in the classes where I knew all I had to do was get the study guide before the test and memorize the answers. This is not learning, because learning we can benefit from. Memorizing is only useful for about a week, if that to do well on our test. Usually after the semester is over we don't remember anything we learned in the class. Morgan Bayda also talks about falling asleep in the classroom and how it affects students. Social networking can open up so many opportunities for us, for her it helped her get a volunteering job in Costa Rica, that didn't cost her much money on top of it. Just by putting on twitter one day how frustrated she was, someone tweeted her a helpful website to use. As educators, we need to make sure our students are making good use of technology and we're not behind. There is so much available information on the internet we can use to help students in the classroom
Pencil Intergration- This was a very interesting post and the principal in this post seems very ignorant. I can't believe there has actually been a study done on whether or not a student performs better on standarized tests if he uses a pencil at home. That has got to be the craziest thing I have ever heard. It's not about the pencil when a student takes a test, it's about the knowledge that they know. The principal was just assuming the teacher was going to have low scores from the beginning because the students took their pencils home. This teacher seems like a great teacher, because he gets the students to be interactive at home and do fun projects. Students will be alot more interested in school, if it's fun for them. Thats why I think technology is going to be great in the schools for bettering education, because students love to be on computers. Especially for younger children, there are so many websites offered with games and lessons for the students to learn from.
Pencil Intergration- This was a very interesting post and the principal in this post seems very ignorant. I can't believe there has actually been a study done on whether or not a student performs better on standarized tests if he uses a pencil at home. That has got to be the craziest thing I have ever heard. It's not about the pencil when a student takes a test, it's about the knowledge that they know. The principal was just assuming the teacher was going to have low scores from the beginning because the students took their pencils home. This teacher seems like a great teacher, because he gets the students to be interactive at home and do fun projects. Students will be alot more interested in school, if it's fun for them. Thats why I think technology is going to be great in the schools for bettering education, because students love to be on computers. Especially for younger children, there are so many websites offered with games and lessons for the students to learn from.
Blog Post #8
This is how we dream- Part 1: "This is the time to be engaged into the literacy, I'm a person of the book" He is very passionate about books, he grew up around books and that's all he ever wanted to do is be involved in books and his dream came true. Here is he, written a book and has it doing a video on books and technology. He says that pencils and paper are rarely ever used anymore, because we are always carrying our laptops around to do our homework or even work. The internet offers libraries all over the world, so we can do unimaginable research right in front of our eyes...sitting in our laps. Instead of going to libraries, we can actually look up valuable resources on the internet and locate libraries around the world. This also allows us to collaborate with other people around the world. We can use blogs and other social networking to do projects and write papers. Group work is now possible, without having to find a convenient place and time for everyone to meet. Which we all now, can be very difficult.
Part 2: Material on the internet is always changing right before our eyes. I learned alot more information in this video on ItunesU...one of these days I'm going to sit down and actually use Itunes U, it's amazing what all can be done through the program. "Ideas don't belong to us individually, but to us as a culture. We as educators need to be able to share everything freely." As educators we should always be more than willing to share information with other teachers and students that can help everyone. You never know when something you might do can be used for someone later down the road for research. One day students will be using the same digital work they use in the video to their homework and assignments. I would love to be able to do work like this one day on the computer. I must say watching him work with a Mac and using all the tools Apple has to offer, really makes me want to go buy a MacBook. There are so many features on a Mac that can help us better education through technology. This video really does help make sense of why we should want to live in the world of a new culture. I liked the example of the building, what would happen if we used that space for humanities with math and science instead of a parking lot. The building would be "inspiring spaces, teachers, and students" I have never thought about it like that, what could we do with all the extra space??
Chipper Stories&EDM310 for Dummies- The chipper stories video was funny, but got to the point about how we shouldn't be late on our work and procrastination. I also like the way she noted how on Wikipedia, just anyone can go in and change information whenever they want. The EDM 310 for dummies relates to the way I felt at the beginning of the semester so much. I'm not gonna lie, there are still times when EDM 310 drives me a little crazy, but it's not because there's an overwhelming workload. I'm more or less "scared" of the technology we have to use sometimes. I know it might sound crazy, just scared of sitting down and trying to figure it out and the possibility of having no idea what I am doing. That's what we have the lab for though! Once I go ahead and just sit down and do my project, I'm like wow...now that wasn't so bad.
Learn to change, Change to learn- "Kids are rich content developers through social networks, but they are cut off" Like one man said, Technology is part of our world now. I am always saying that, we can't do anything about it, mine as well get to know it. Children learn online, not just in school. School can be used to help students get connected to the outside world. Kids these days, know so much just from the internet and social networking. So many adults are against technology and think that's all kids have to do and never benefit from it. Adults need to sit down and help explore with the children.
Secret Powers of Time- The way he described time zones was very interesting. Past, Present, and Future is a way of describing the type of person each of us are. "You need to trust when you make a choice about the future it's gonna carry out." I think as educators and students we need to always be future thinkers, because that way we will always want to think ahead and better ourselves. The study done on Sense of Duraton and the Pace of life was interesting, because it shows that culturals around the world are different. I can't get over the statistic that every 9 seconds, a child is dropping out of school. As educators this statistic should really open our eyes. Makes a good point that it's hard for students to concentrate in a analogue classroom. Especially for boys, who spend so much of their time either on a computer or playing video games...they like to be in control of something and in the classroom children are in control of NOTHING. There is no options for students to control anything in school, which bores them in the classroom. Children spend almost eight hours a day looking up at a teacher and listening to what they have to say. THe attention span can only last for so long. "WE ARE A REVOLUTION IN TIME"
Drive, the suprising truth about what motivates us: Reward vs. Punish. The video starts out with how you get better results when you reward someone with something, but when you punish someone you get poor results. The results you get out of people depends on what the outcome looks like for them. What motivates them?!? The study showed that the decent pay resulted in better performance and the higher pay resulted in lower performance. Strange? They then moved the research to India to see how their results came out. The higher incentives, yet again lower performance. People for for the more simple tasks, even if there is a way to get more money. If the way to get more money requires more cognitive thinking, most people aren't going to do it either way. Mastery, is alot like the "future verb tense". Mastery is all about moving forward and being able to accomplish something. When you are wanting to master something, your wanting to do better!
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Part 2: Material on the internet is always changing right before our eyes. I learned alot more information in this video on ItunesU...one of these days I'm going to sit down and actually use Itunes U, it's amazing what all can be done through the program. "Ideas don't belong to us individually, but to us as a culture. We as educators need to be able to share everything freely." As educators we should always be more than willing to share information with other teachers and students that can help everyone. You never know when something you might do can be used for someone later down the road for research. One day students will be using the same digital work they use in the video to their homework and assignments. I would love to be able to do work like this one day on the computer. I must say watching him work with a Mac and using all the tools Apple has to offer, really makes me want to go buy a MacBook. There are so many features on a Mac that can help us better education through technology. This video really does help make sense of why we should want to live in the world of a new culture. I liked the example of the building, what would happen if we used that space for humanities with math and science instead of a parking lot. The building would be "inspiring spaces, teachers, and students" I have never thought about it like that, what could we do with all the extra space??
Chipper Stories&EDM310 for Dummies- The chipper stories video was funny, but got to the point about how we shouldn't be late on our work and procrastination. I also like the way she noted how on Wikipedia, just anyone can go in and change information whenever they want. The EDM 310 for dummies relates to the way I felt at the beginning of the semester so much. I'm not gonna lie, there are still times when EDM 310 drives me a little crazy, but it's not because there's an overwhelming workload. I'm more or less "scared" of the technology we have to use sometimes. I know it might sound crazy, just scared of sitting down and trying to figure it out and the possibility of having no idea what I am doing. That's what we have the lab for though! Once I go ahead and just sit down and do my project, I'm like wow...now that wasn't so bad.
Learn to change, Change to learn- "Kids are rich content developers through social networks, but they are cut off" Like one man said, Technology is part of our world now. I am always saying that, we can't do anything about it, mine as well get to know it. Children learn online, not just in school. School can be used to help students get connected to the outside world. Kids these days, know so much just from the internet and social networking. So many adults are against technology and think that's all kids have to do and never benefit from it. Adults need to sit down and help explore with the children.
Secret Powers of Time- The way he described time zones was very interesting. Past, Present, and Future is a way of describing the type of person each of us are. "You need to trust when you make a choice about the future it's gonna carry out." I think as educators and students we need to always be future thinkers, because that way we will always want to think ahead and better ourselves. The study done on Sense of Duraton and the Pace of life was interesting, because it shows that culturals around the world are different. I can't get over the statistic that every 9 seconds, a child is dropping out of school. As educators this statistic should really open our eyes. Makes a good point that it's hard for students to concentrate in a analogue classroom. Especially for boys, who spend so much of their time either on a computer or playing video games...they like to be in control of something and in the classroom children are in control of NOTHING. There is no options for students to control anything in school, which bores them in the classroom. Children spend almost eight hours a day looking up at a teacher and listening to what they have to say. THe attention span can only last for so long. "WE ARE A REVOLUTION IN TIME"
Drive, the suprising truth about what motivates us: Reward vs. Punish. The video starts out with how you get better results when you reward someone with something, but when you punish someone you get poor results. The results you get out of people depends on what the outcome looks like for them. What motivates them?!? The study showed that the decent pay resulted in better performance and the higher pay resulted in lower performance. Strange? They then moved the research to India to see how their results came out. The higher incentives, yet again lower performance. People for for the more simple tasks, even if there is a way to get more money. If the way to get more money requires more cognitive thinking, most people aren't going to do it either way. Mastery, is alot like the "future verb tense". Mastery is all about moving forward and being able to accomplish something. When you are wanting to master something, your wanting to do better!
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Monday, March 28, 2011
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Blog Post #9
Mr. McClung's What I've learned this year- In Mr. McClung's essay he made some very valuable points in a short and simple essay. As future teachers, we should follow what he says in these essays. He is right about the lesson plans, teachers get so tied up with preparing their lesson plans for their principals that teachers often forget who the lesson plan is actually for. It's unfortunate that in the classroom now, the teachers are always having to drill the students with testing and how to prepare the students for the tests. Those tests are such important on the teacher and the school as a whole, the teachers focus solely on testing. I'm sure as a beginner teacher, I will go in focusing strictly on my lesson plan and making sure my principal will like it, that I will get side tracked in remembering that it's for the students. I really liked what he said about teacher/student relationship, "I truly believe that teachers do not know enough about the students they are teaching. In order to build the respect that we all seek in a student teacher relationship, it is important to take interest their the lives of our students. It's that important." I have always said that I think it's important that the teachers always listen to the students and get to know each student's individual personality. I asked my teacher one day that I was observing how she gets her children to behave so well, and she said because she knows each of their personalities and how to handle them when they get upset.
Friday, March 25, 2011
C4K-Posts 4-6
C4K-#4- I was assigned to Mr. Mike Harris's classroom, Room 19, in Auckland, New Zealand. The student's blog I looked at was Gabrielle from Pt. England School in Grade 7. In her first blog she wrote about how excited she was about getting to go to camp in three days. The children are split into groups called, Respectablez, Carez, Motavatiez, and the Thinkers. Gabrielle was in the Respectablez group. The name of the camp is "Take Charge". The school gives them an oppurtunity to go to the camp and learn ways to take charge. That seems to be their motto in the school, because I later viewed another video called Take Charge. Her next blog was about "Surf Life Saving at Mairangi Bay". The children went on a field trip to Mairangi Bay to learn about water safety. Gabrielle said that it was freezing outside but she went on ahead and got in the water with her board. She only lasted about ten seconds in the cold water and ended up with a little cough. Although she got a cough, she said the day was enjoyable and full of laughs and a good time.
C4K-#5- The next blog was Ms. Jenny's Year 6 classs at Pt. England School. Their class blog is called "Little Voices, Little Scholars". I watched a video on the classblog on the school picnic they have every year. The School picnic gives the kids an oppurtunity to have fun with their school friends, teachers, and family. They all come to together and play games, do potterty, play on the playground, and swim in the ocean. Every kid wears a big red hat that looks like they are going on a field trip. It really looked like such a fun time to just spend the whole day having fun with everyone from school.
I looked at Angelo's blog and his first blog was a video of him describing his wonderful weekend. In his video he talked about how he rode his bike to his grandmother's house. The next blog was "Learning to Take Charge Video". It had pictures of the kids art work of them going out and doing productive things to take charge. The video would transition between a topic and then a child would speak. It showed the children on the playground, doing work in class, learning how to swim, and playing together. Each child would say they take charge and follow instructions, or use safety on the play ground, or focus in school. I thought it was really interesting that the children get the chance to swim during P.E. I would have loved that as a child, because I always loved to be in the water.
C4K-#6- The next blog I looked at was Room 14, The Explorers, in Taurango, New Zealand. I looked at a girls blog named Lucy. I watched a video that her and another girl created on "How is culture reflected through the arts?" The classroom made art work that reflected the same that the Greeks did. They also would make art work that went along with a Greek god they learned about. The girls made a video of the classroom's art work they had done throught the Greek lesson. at the end they had a credits run through of the comments that teachers and other students had said about their video. It was really cool, because at the end you could comment on their video, then your comment would be added to the slides.
The next post I read was called "What makes a great post", This was a really good post because it talked about the importance of making a vital and safe post. Their tips were to; Only use your first name, use sensible and appropriate language, draft your post and always have the teacher check it, never write out personal details, and always ask permission before posting someone else's photo. I thought these were all very good ideas on making a great post.
C4K-#5- The next blog was Ms. Jenny's Year 6 classs at Pt. England School. Their class blog is called "Little Voices, Little Scholars". I watched a video on the classblog on the school picnic they have every year. The School picnic gives the kids an oppurtunity to have fun with their school friends, teachers, and family. They all come to together and play games, do potterty, play on the playground, and swim in the ocean. Every kid wears a big red hat that looks like they are going on a field trip. It really looked like such a fun time to just spend the whole day having fun with everyone from school.
I looked at Angelo's blog and his first blog was a video of him describing his wonderful weekend. In his video he talked about how he rode his bike to his grandmother's house. The next blog was "Learning to Take Charge Video". It had pictures of the kids art work of them going out and doing productive things to take charge. The video would transition between a topic and then a child would speak. It showed the children on the playground, doing work in class, learning how to swim, and playing together. Each child would say they take charge and follow instructions, or use safety on the play ground, or focus in school. I thought it was really interesting that the children get the chance to swim during P.E. I would have loved that as a child, because I always loved to be in the water.
C4K-#6- The next blog I looked at was Room 14, The Explorers, in Taurango, New Zealand. I looked at a girls blog named Lucy. I watched a video that her and another girl created on "How is culture reflected through the arts?" The classroom made art work that reflected the same that the Greeks did. They also would make art work that went along with a Greek god they learned about. The girls made a video of the classroom's art work they had done throught the Greek lesson. at the end they had a credits run through of the comments that teachers and other students had said about their video. It was really cool, because at the end you could comment on their video, then your comment would be added to the slides.
The next post I read was called "What makes a great post", This was a really good post because it talked about the importance of making a vital and safe post. Their tips were to; Only use your first name, use sensible and appropriate language, draft your post and always have the teacher check it, never write out personal details, and always ask permission before posting someone else's photo. I thought these were all very good ideas on making a great post.
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Monday, March 7, 2011
PLN Progress
C4T#2
The teacher I was assigned gave me the impression that she was more of a stay at home mom now. She seemed very into blogging and looking up other teacher's blogs to get a good argument going on her post. The posts are responded to were her posts about "grading parents and giving them a report card." To some extent I think that parents should have to get a report card. I'm not really sure if the parents would really be concerned about their "grades". I know that me personally would be really embarrassed if I got a bad report on my parenting skills. Some parents really don't care about their children's schooling, unfortuantly.
Friday, March 4, 2011
Blog Post 7
Last Lecture I really enjoyed listening to Randy Pausche's Last Lecture. I didn't pay attention to the title of the video, "Last Lecture", until the end, so I was hoping that at the end we would be told her survived the cancer. Throughout this video, I laughed and even teared up at the end. Randy was such a well known man who accomplished a lot of things before the age of 50. He has work that will go on to help better students learning with advanced technology.
I looked up some more information on the programs he created and were involved in. Alice is a program that has classes set up for teachers and students to use the 3-D programming. I went and looked at the Alice blog and I watched this guy make one of a 3-D animation of a penguin for his class. It was really interesting how this works. It really does make class fun, it's a fully interactive class making animation.
The Entertainment Technology Center really seemed like a lot of fun. It's a masters program for studetns focused on Technology Entertainment. When he showed us the pictures, it seems like they make it a lot of fun. I really like how he relates with the students, such as no text books because they have already had four years of reading books. He also relates with the students by making hard school work, fun!
These programs seem like a lot of hard work but will pay off in the end. I think it's really awesome how they pretty much have a job waiting for them when they graduate with their masters degree from this school. I can imagine how nice it would be, to know that all your hard work will pay off for sure when you get done. It's kinda scary right now going into education, because there are such shortages in jobs...especially in Mobile.
Randy had the oppurtunity to meet and work with some great people, who he gave full credit to for helping him reach his goals. He was so optimistic and he was very insprining, especially when he talked about never giving up.
I looked up some more information on the programs he created and were involved in. Alice is a program that has classes set up for teachers and students to use the 3-D programming. I went and looked at the Alice blog and I watched this guy make one of a 3-D animation of a penguin for his class. It was really interesting how this works. It really does make class fun, it's a fully interactive class making animation.
The Entertainment Technology Center really seemed like a lot of fun. It's a masters program for studetns focused on Technology Entertainment. When he showed us the pictures, it seems like they make it a lot of fun. I really like how he relates with the students, such as no text books because they have already had four years of reading books. He also relates with the students by making hard school work, fun!
These programs seem like a lot of hard work but will pay off in the end. I think it's really awesome how they pretty much have a job waiting for them when they graduate with their masters degree from this school. I can imagine how nice it would be, to know that all your hard work will pay off for sure when you get done. It's kinda scary right now going into education, because there are such shortages in jobs...especially in Mobile.
Randy had the oppurtunity to meet and work with some great people, who he gave full credit to for helping him reach his goals. He was so optimistic and he was very insprining, especially when he talked about never giving up.
Monday, February 28, 2011
Blog Post 6
Social Network-learning- This was a great video and I actually learned some things from this video that I didn't know about. I like the way the video used drawings of cartoons to do the skit/video. It shows that you don't have to always have elaborate use of technology to get the point across. I know we read a blog a while back on how to use your ipod, but I guess I missed the part about actually going to ItunesU. That is really awesome that we have access to colleges and books all over the world that we can put on our ipod.
This video showed how children in the classroom are able to learn through the internet and social networks. Blogging and podcasts can allow the students to learn valuable information with other students around the world or share their information. After learning so much about podcasts the past couple of weeks, they have become something I am really interested in. At the beginning of the semester I said that, I don't think technology should be so involved in the classrooms, what will happen to the teachers? Now, I am all for technology in the classroom, because it allows such useful information for students around the world. The teacher is going to be used to help the students know how to use the internet and the social networks appropriately. I know there have been plenty of times where I have questioned the information I was using that I found on the internet.
Welcome to my PLE-
This video was very informative for me, because to be honest I was a bit confused on what exactly a PLN was. The student did a great job of showing how exactly a PLE is organized and created. The girl showed how she had her classwork, blogs, and social networks organized on each line. I think this is great way to keep school work organized and to know what assignments you need to get taken care of everyday. I am really excited about making my PLN now. I think my PLN will help me keep organized with different assignments I need to do during the week, because I can just go right to it. I have several things every week that require me to be online to do assignments.
Smart Boards:
Both of the people who wrote the blog about smart boards, you can of course tell they are not fans of them. You would think after the arguments possibly my opinions towards smartboards would change but I completely disagree with these people. They both argued that it wasn't worth the money that the schools spend on it and they are basically like trophies for the administrators. I wish when I was a student we would have had smart boards, because I remember just getting excited about going to the chalk board, I couldn't imagine how excited I would be to play on a smart board. The smart board gives students the ability to be interactive in the classroom. There are so many activities and learning opportunities on smartboards. I found a blog with someone talking about how smartboards and other uses of technology are helpful in the classroom. Edweek-positive smartboards This blog talked about how the smartboards and computers can be helpful in the classroom for students.
This video showed how children in the classroom are able to learn through the internet and social networks. Blogging and podcasts can allow the students to learn valuable information with other students around the world or share their information. After learning so much about podcasts the past couple of weeks, they have become something I am really interested in. At the beginning of the semester I said that, I don't think technology should be so involved in the classrooms, what will happen to the teachers? Now, I am all for technology in the classroom, because it allows such useful information for students around the world. The teacher is going to be used to help the students know how to use the internet and the social networks appropriately. I know there have been plenty of times where I have questioned the information I was using that I found on the internet.
Welcome to my PLE-
This video was very informative for me, because to be honest I was a bit confused on what exactly a PLN was. The student did a great job of showing how exactly a PLE is organized and created. The girl showed how she had her classwork, blogs, and social networks organized on each line. I think this is great way to keep school work organized and to know what assignments you need to get taken care of everyday. I am really excited about making my PLN now. I think my PLN will help me keep organized with different assignments I need to do during the week, because I can just go right to it. I have several things every week that require me to be online to do assignments.
Smart Boards:
Both of the people who wrote the blog about smart boards, you can of course tell they are not fans of them. You would think after the arguments possibly my opinions towards smartboards would change but I completely disagree with these people. They both argued that it wasn't worth the money that the schools spend on it and they are basically like trophies for the administrators. I wish when I was a student we would have had smart boards, because I remember just getting excited about going to the chalk board, I couldn't imagine how excited I would be to play on a smart board. The smart board gives students the ability to be interactive in the classroom. There are so many activities and learning opportunities on smartboards. I found a blog with someone talking about how smartboards and other uses of technology are helpful in the classroom. Edweek-positive smartboards This blog talked about how the smartboards and computers can be helpful in the classroom for students.
Friday, February 25, 2011
C4K Post
My first kid was from a blog sight called blog Building Blocks associated with Classroom March 2011 Edublog Blogging Challenge. I was assigned to a young girl named Nicole and for her assignment she had to list down eight random things about herself. The most interesting thing about her to me was that she has seen a shooting star with her best friend next to her. I have seen a shooting star, but never with someone next to me. I also thought it was interesting that the fact she has only been to the United States one time was one of them. I started to think about eight interesting things about myself after reading this, I always find it hard to come up with things like that.
My next student was Flora at Pt. England School in Auckland, New Zealand. She is in Room 13 and her teacher's name is Miss King. The room numbers are how they organize the website to get to the classrooms blog easily. In Flora's first blog assignment she talked about how she excited was to be getting her netbook. She talked about the day they got the netbooks and were able to open up themselves and charge them so they could get them to turn on. Flora also talked about how after they got their netbooks they had to go to morning tea, which I thought was interesting. In the United States most schools have "snack time" for young students in the schools. In New Zealand they obviously have Morning Tea. Just opens my eyes to how awesome it is that we are talking to young kids around the world.
My third student was Mr. Wolfe's class and they are the first group of children from Alabama we have been able to blog with. This blog was very creative, detailed, and had lots of pictures. I was impressed that a child made this blog, because all of their assignment were very detailed with great pictures. I commented on the post about her being excited about the Valentine's dance, because she had a partner. I remember being excited about going to dances when I was younger. Unfortunately I didn't get a response from any of the students, but I really enjoyed reading all of their posts.
My next student was Flora at Pt. England School in Auckland, New Zealand. She is in Room 13 and her teacher's name is Miss King. The room numbers are how they organize the website to get to the classrooms blog easily. In Flora's first blog assignment she talked about how she excited was to be getting her netbook. She talked about the day they got the netbooks and were able to open up themselves and charge them so they could get them to turn on. Flora also talked about how after they got their netbooks they had to go to morning tea, which I thought was interesting. In the United States most schools have "snack time" for young students in the schools. In New Zealand they obviously have Morning Tea. Just opens my eyes to how awesome it is that we are talking to young kids around the world.
My third student was Mr. Wolfe's class and they are the first group of children from Alabama we have been able to blog with. This blog was very creative, detailed, and had lots of pictures. I was impressed that a child made this blog, because all of their assignment were very detailed with great pictures. I commented on the post about her being excited about the Valentine's dance, because she had a partner. I remember being excited about going to dances when I was younger. Unfortunately I didn't get a response from any of the students, but I really enjoyed reading all of their posts.
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Blog post #5
Podcasting in the Classroom- I have never actually thought of how podcasting can be a useful tool in the classroom and outside of the classroom. That is a really good idea for teachers to have the lectures in class on video, because when a student is absent they can view the lecture. I remember missing a week of school and falling so far behind, but with podcasting children can keep up with the other students. It's also a good idea to have a podcast on blogs so other students and teachers can view them and comment on the podcasts. Podbean, sounds like an great site to make use of for teachers to have blog sites for their students to use to chat with each other outside of the classroom.
Podcast help The website Judy Scharff Podcast Collection was a very helpful website on how to do podcasts. The definition alone was very helpful for me, because I'm going to admit I just thought it was another name for video. There were several links to go to that will be helpful in making a podcast and how to download certain softwares to help you make a podcast. I am really looking forward to making a podcast after reading and watching these videos. It led me to a video called PODCAST 101 which was a bit lengthy but it was a great help. I'm going to use this website to go back and get the links to download the softwares to help me with my podcasts.
100 Ways to Use Your Ipod This website was really interesting, I didn't know you could download all these things onto your Ipod. I know that they have all these applications for Itouch and Iphones but I didn't know you could use them for Ipods. That's probably not what they are talking about and I just sounded like an idiot. I'm going to assume they are though and their are so many cool things. I like the one for learning Spanish and English, that's really awesome if you want to learn another language. I also like the application, where you can download the Bible and listen to it, somebody like my grandmother would love this. Thanks for showing all these websites, that are going to be very helpful in making podcasts.
Third Graders Podcasts- I went ahead and watched this one, because I was really interested to see what the third graders did on their podcasts. This was an amazing coming from third graders, I learned quiet a bit on the Romans just from this video that was very informative!!!
Podcast help The website Judy Scharff Podcast Collection was a very helpful website on how to do podcasts. The definition alone was very helpful for me, because I'm going to admit I just thought it was another name for video. There were several links to go to that will be helpful in making a podcast and how to download certain softwares to help you make a podcast. I am really looking forward to making a podcast after reading and watching these videos. It led me to a video called PODCAST 101 which was a bit lengthy but it was a great help. I'm going to use this website to go back and get the links to download the softwares to help me with my podcasts.
100 Ways to Use Your Ipod This website was really interesting, I didn't know you could download all these things onto your Ipod. I know that they have all these applications for Itouch and Iphones but I didn't know you could use them for Ipods. That's probably not what they are talking about and I just sounded like an idiot. I'm going to assume they are though and their are so many cool things. I like the one for learning Spanish and English, that's really awesome if you want to learn another language. I also like the application, where you can download the Bible and listen to it, somebody like my grandmother would love this. Thanks for showing all these websites, that are going to be very helpful in making podcasts.
Third Graders Podcasts- I went ahead and watched this one, because I was really interested to see what the third graders did on their podcasts. This was an amazing coming from third graders, I learned quiet a bit on the Romans just from this video that was very informative!!!
Friday, February 11, 2011
Blog Post 4
Don't teach your kids this.
This blog was very interesting and confusing. I had to read over it a couple of times and read over other students posts to get a full understanding. My thoughts at first were that, wow this guy really hates technology! I see now, that he is just opening our eyes to see that technology is in face dangerous, but we need to do something about it.
I think parents should take more effort to protect what their children can view on the internet. Children that are giving a computer or cellphone have full access to things unimaginable. Dr. McLeod is an associate professor in the Educational Program at Iowa State University and the Director of the Center for thr Advanced Study of Technology Leadership in Education. He has been awareded many awards for his excellence in education in levels K-12.
The ischool.
I can't believe a student in high school made this video. It was very inspiring to make someone want to go to "ischool." I like it and I don't like it. I like it because it saves money in the school system and we definietly need money in the school system. Maybe if this took place, we could have more funds to go towards more teachers and other activities in the schools. Ischool can help save the enviroment, save more trees. Just in Mobile alone, it's unreal much woodlands are gone and neighborhoods are taken over. I can't imagine how this looks for people who are much older.
At first, I thought he meant just to cut out schools completely and use the ischool for school. I know technology is great, but I hope it doesn't one day completely take over the classroom. Children need to be in classrooms and be around other students, so they can have social skills. Very interesting video, thanks for sharing it with us!
Lost Generation
Wow, this video was awesome!! Our generation is going to be a lost generation if we don't do something about it. Even compared to my parents generation, she is always saying my generation just doesn't care about anything. Which is true, not very many people have morals or care about what's right anymore. I like how the script reversed and made it a positive outlook on the next generation. This was a really inspiring video that I think everyone in our generation should watch.
Choir
OH MY GOODNESS! This video is unbelievable, literally I couldn't believe what I was watching the entire time. This takes talent on both the instructor and the members of the choir to be able to perform something so beautiful. I can't believe technology has brought us to this. I'm going to show this video to everyone today, because I am in shock at how wonderful it is
Teaching in the classroom
This video confused me at first, because I wasn't sure if it was saying technology was good or bad. I got the understanding that this video was saying if internet access is going to take over our children's knowledge, then we need to teach them how to use it. If students are going to learn from the internet then they do need to know to use it correctly. If children aren't taught about plagirism and copyright, all of their work can be just someones work with no real learning.
We as teachers need to take advantage of the internet and learn how to use it ourselves, then teach our students. There is no running away from technology, it's here to stay so we need to take advantage of what we've been given.
This blog was very interesting and confusing. I had to read over it a couple of times and read over other students posts to get a full understanding. My thoughts at first were that, wow this guy really hates technology! I see now, that he is just opening our eyes to see that technology is in face dangerous, but we need to do something about it.
I think parents should take more effort to protect what their children can view on the internet. Children that are giving a computer or cellphone have full access to things unimaginable. Dr. McLeod is an associate professor in the Educational Program at Iowa State University and the Director of the Center for thr Advanced Study of Technology Leadership in Education. He has been awareded many awards for his excellence in education in levels K-12.
The ischool.
I can't believe a student in high school made this video. It was very inspiring to make someone want to go to "ischool." I like it and I don't like it. I like it because it saves money in the school system and we definietly need money in the school system. Maybe if this took place, we could have more funds to go towards more teachers and other activities in the schools. Ischool can help save the enviroment, save more trees. Just in Mobile alone, it's unreal much woodlands are gone and neighborhoods are taken over. I can't imagine how this looks for people who are much older.
At first, I thought he meant just to cut out schools completely and use the ischool for school. I know technology is great, but I hope it doesn't one day completely take over the classroom. Children need to be in classrooms and be around other students, so they can have social skills. Very interesting video, thanks for sharing it with us!
Lost Generation
Wow, this video was awesome!! Our generation is going to be a lost generation if we don't do something about it. Even compared to my parents generation, she is always saying my generation just doesn't care about anything. Which is true, not very many people have morals or care about what's right anymore. I like how the script reversed and made it a positive outlook on the next generation. This was a really inspiring video that I think everyone in our generation should watch.
Choir
OH MY GOODNESS! This video is unbelievable, literally I couldn't believe what I was watching the entire time. This takes talent on both the instructor and the members of the choir to be able to perform something so beautiful. I can't believe technology has brought us to this. I'm going to show this video to everyone today, because I am in shock at how wonderful it is
Teaching in the classroom
This video confused me at first, because I wasn't sure if it was saying technology was good or bad. I got the understanding that this video was saying if internet access is going to take over our children's knowledge, then we need to teach them how to use it. If students are going to learn from the internet then they do need to know to use it correctly. If children aren't taught about plagirism and copyright, all of their work can be just someones work with no real learning.
We as teachers need to take advantage of the internet and learn how to use it ourselves, then teach our students. There is no running away from technology, it's here to stay so we need to take advantage of what we've been given.
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Monday, February 7, 2011
Friday, February 4, 2011
C4C Posts
C4C#1- My first classmate blog assignment was Courtney Bengtson's blog. Courtney is from Daphne, Alabama and teaches at a local daycare. Where she seemed to really enjoy working and loves the kids! I found that we have something in common and that is spending Sundays with our family. I spend almost every Sunday with my family in the afternoon after church. I enjoyed getting to know Courtney through the post. I responded by saying, I was jealous she gets to live in Daphne. I love doing anything across the bay and I really hope to live in Daphne or Fairhope one day.
C4C#2- My second classmate blog assignment was Alexa Howie's blog. Alexa Howie is originally from New York and has moved around quiet a bit. Her reasons for moving around so much is because her dad is in the Coast Guard. Alexa has always wanted to be a teacher, inspired by her mother. Her parents are her heroes, which I think is really awesome. Alexa also talked highly of her mother, it reminded me a lot of myself. My mom is also a teacher and I strive to be like my mother!
C4C#2- My second classmate blog assignment was Alexa Howie's blog. Alexa Howie is originally from New York and has moved around quiet a bit. Her reasons for moving around so much is because her dad is in the Coast Guard. Alexa has always wanted to be a teacher, inspired by her mother. Her parents are her heroes, which I think is really awesome. Alexa also talked highly of her mother, it reminded me a lot of myself. My mom is also a teacher and I strive to be like my mother!
C4T and C4C Posts
C4T#1- For my C4T assignment I was assigned to the blog site, Connected Principals. The first post I responded to was, Guts: An alloy much stronger than gold, posted by "cbirk". In this post, she discussed how we as teachers need to have guts in order to be good teachers. Teachers with guts aren't scared to get out there and do things to better their students. She also gave a list of teachers and principals who have done remarkable things that required guts. I thought it was interesting that two of these teachers created a survey for their students, where the students can evaluate them every week. This lets the students speak up and let the teachers listen to the problems they might be having in the classroom. It creates a relationship between the teacher and the student. I responded to the blog by stating that I really enjoyed her blog. I unfortunately did not get a response.
C4T#2- For my second assignment, I chose another blog to respond to. The second blog was, Multicultural Education, posted by Dave Bircher. Dave talked about how we should have more multiculturalism in the classroom and in the schools. At his school, they have dedicated a day to Multicultural Day, where the students have a day completely about other countries. The Vancouver's drummer and dancers that performed at the 2010 Olympics perform at their school. I responded back and said that when I was in high school, we had an event called International Festival at school. It was kinda like the Mobile International Festival, but the students put it on at our school. I haven't received a response yet, but I noticed he responds to everyone so hopefully I will get one.
C4T#2- For my second assignment, I chose another blog to respond to. The second blog was, Multicultural Education, posted by Dave Bircher. Dave talked about how we should have more multiculturalism in the classroom and in the schools. At his school, they have dedicated a day to Multicultural Day, where the students have a day completely about other countries. The Vancouver's drummer and dancers that performed at the 2010 Olympics perform at their school. I responded back and said that when I was in high school, we had an event called International Festival at school. It was kinda like the Mobile International Festival, but the students put it on at our school. I haven't received a response yet, but I noticed he responds to everyone so hopefully I will get one.
Blog Post #3
A Vision of Students Today: This video relates to my college experience perfectly. College is overwhelming when most of us are used to sitting in a class of thirty and then we walk into a class of a hundred. There wasn't anything on those notes they held up that doesn't relate to me. We are expected to spend so much money on books and it's so aggravating when the teacher never even requires us to open it up.
I will also have to agree that if I have a laptop in class, I'm most likely going to be on facebook or another website not related to class. I'm not sure if this video is saying that technology is not necessarily a good thing, because anything to do with technology was saying we spend a lot of our time on it compared to school. I'm not sure if I can add anything else to this video, because it really covers anything I would have to complain or say about college.Thanks for this video, I really enjoyed it :).
It's not about technology: This blog post was about how we don't necessarily need technology in the classroom to better educate children, it's about the teacher. I think that Mrs. Hines is so right, because teachers need to be able to teach along with the technology they are given in the classroom. A successful day should be the product of a productive day of learning in the classroom!
"I equate teaching and learning to a basic physics principle. If an object does not move, no matter how much force has been applied, no work has been done." This statement is so true and it really stuck out more then anything in the post. Teachers always blame it on the student if they aren't learning, but never sit back and look at themselves.
Is it okay to be technology illiterate? This post makes me look at technology in a different way now. It's crazy how someone's thoughts on an issue can change your opinion on a subject. Everyone should be technologically literate in the 21st century, because technology is pretty much the basis of everything we do. In almost any job field, you must know how to use a computer.
I have never thought about how it's okay to say "we aren't good at math" but we can't say "we aren't good at reading." People would think we were crazy if we said we didn't know how to read. It shouldn't be okay to be bad at math or any other subject.
Social Media Count
This site was UNREAL! I can not believe how social media counts go on within just thirty seconds. People are literally just obsessed with technology and being updated on social networks. There is no such thing as privacy anymore if you have anything to do with social networks. It's like the world is constantly moving and changing right before your eyes on this website.
This just goes to show that teachers need to continue learning for themselves, because the world around us is changing. Technology is taking over and I often wonder what it's going to be like by the time my children are in schools.
The other videos were really funny and very true. I liked all the newspaper comics about technology!!
I will also have to agree that if I have a laptop in class, I'm most likely going to be on facebook or another website not related to class. I'm not sure if this video is saying that technology is not necessarily a good thing, because anything to do with technology was saying we spend a lot of our time on it compared to school. I'm not sure if I can add anything else to this video, because it really covers anything I would have to complain or say about college.Thanks for this video, I really enjoyed it :).
It's not about technology: This blog post was about how we don't necessarily need technology in the classroom to better educate children, it's about the teacher. I think that Mrs. Hines is so right, because teachers need to be able to teach along with the technology they are given in the classroom. A successful day should be the product of a productive day of learning in the classroom!
"I equate teaching and learning to a basic physics principle. If an object does not move, no matter how much force has been applied, no work has been done." This statement is so true and it really stuck out more then anything in the post. Teachers always blame it on the student if they aren't learning, but never sit back and look at themselves.
Is it okay to be technology illiterate? This post makes me look at technology in a different way now. It's crazy how someone's thoughts on an issue can change your opinion on a subject. Everyone should be technologically literate in the 21st century, because technology is pretty much the basis of everything we do. In almost any job field, you must know how to use a computer.
I have never thought about how it's okay to say "we aren't good at math" but we can't say "we aren't good at reading." People would think we were crazy if we said we didn't know how to read. It shouldn't be okay to be bad at math or any other subject.
Social Media Count
This site was UNREAL! I can not believe how social media counts go on within just thirty seconds. People are literally just obsessed with technology and being updated on social networks. There is no such thing as privacy anymore if you have anything to do with social networks. It's like the world is constantly moving and changing right before your eyes on this website.
This just goes to show that teachers need to continue learning for themselves, because the world around us is changing. Technology is taking over and I often wonder what it's going to be like by the time my children are in schools.
The other videos were really funny and very true. I liked all the newspaper comics about technology!!
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Blog Post 2
Did You Know 3.0 by Karl Fisch and Scott McLeod:
This video was really unbelievable to watch. My mouth just dropped during pretty much the entire video. It's really unbelievable how fast technology has seemed to take over in the past ten years. I can only imagine what technology is going to be like in the next ten years. It's unreal to me that they can really invite anything more unbelievable then anything touch screen. I'm still fascinated with anything touch screen, as silly as that may seem. I think one day, we are going to realize we are got a little ahead of ourselves. Already, technology is putting people out of jobs and if technology keeps going the rate it's going, there probably won't even be a need for teachers one day.
I also didn't realize that India was such a large and fast populating country. I thought China was in the lead of populating children. When it showed the part about marriage and jobs, it made me realize that our lives seem to be so temporary now. I really thought it was interesting about how we are learning about things that don't even exist now. It also got me thinking when the question popped up, "Who did we address with questions before google?" This video was an eye opener and a bit disturbing but interesting all in one.
Mr. Winkle Wakes.... This video goes to show that if you aren't up to date on technology now, then you can hang up having a job. Which leaves older people who need to go out and get a job are in trouble. We actually have an older lady at my job, that was retired for several years and said she knew how to work a computer, but it's nothing like it was ten years ago. I'm sure that technology is somewhat upsetting and beyond overwhelming to older people who are in a world that some of them know nothing about.
In the video, Mr. Winkle went back to school and it made him happy that school was still the same as it was when he was in school. I really hope that it stays that way when my children are in school. There are some things that just shouldn't change. I remember being in school and learning about subjects and it being enjoyable to an extent, it's so unfortunate that now the children are having to learn about a standardized test.
Ted-Schools kill creativity I loved listening to Ted Robinson. He makes a serious topic on education funny and interesting. He made so many good points throughout the video about children and talent. It's so true that children are deprived of creativity now. In the classroom, children rarely get to experience art in the classroom because teachers are so focused on making sure their students do well on the standardized test.
When we are children we are constantly told how anything to do with art is never going to make money. I think that people should do what makes them happy in life, but these days money seems to be the only thing that makes people happy. I thought it was really funny when Ted Robinson was talking about Shakespeare, and he made a good point about picturing Shakespeare with a father or in a classroom. I also liked the story about the little girl who ended up just wanting to dance.
Breaking Creative Myths-That is unreal that Finland's dropout rate is only 1% compared to the United States 25%. Something has got to be done in the school systems in the United States, but what is there to do?!? People are always coming up with "solutions" to help children stay in school but nothing seems to really work. I really like Ted Robinson's outlook on creativity.
He is so right with all of his points towards the myths of creativity. I think every child has creativity, it's just a matter of how it is brought out to the child early in life. I think creativity is going to continue to get further and further out of education because it's not a focus in the classroom.
Students Digital Smarter- This video reminded me of EDM 310. I think that high schools should have more technology in the classroom to help students be prepared. Now that colleges, are starting to put classes on the internet, we should be more technology intelligent to be prepared. I never realized until the past couple of weeks in this class how much blogs, twitter, and facebook can be so useful.
Sometimes, we can learn from students especially with technology. This video ended off the rest of the videos I watched, by making me appreciate technology!
This video was really unbelievable to watch. My mouth just dropped during pretty much the entire video. It's really unbelievable how fast technology has seemed to take over in the past ten years. I can only imagine what technology is going to be like in the next ten years. It's unreal to me that they can really invite anything more unbelievable then anything touch screen. I'm still fascinated with anything touch screen, as silly as that may seem. I think one day, we are going to realize we are got a little ahead of ourselves. Already, technology is putting people out of jobs and if technology keeps going the rate it's going, there probably won't even be a need for teachers one day.
I also didn't realize that India was such a large and fast populating country. I thought China was in the lead of populating children. When it showed the part about marriage and jobs, it made me realize that our lives seem to be so temporary now. I really thought it was interesting about how we are learning about things that don't even exist now. It also got me thinking when the question popped up, "Who did we address with questions before google?" This video was an eye opener and a bit disturbing but interesting all in one.
Mr. Winkle Wakes.... This video goes to show that if you aren't up to date on technology now, then you can hang up having a job. Which leaves older people who need to go out and get a job are in trouble. We actually have an older lady at my job, that was retired for several years and said she knew how to work a computer, but it's nothing like it was ten years ago. I'm sure that technology is somewhat upsetting and beyond overwhelming to older people who are in a world that some of them know nothing about.
In the video, Mr. Winkle went back to school and it made him happy that school was still the same as it was when he was in school. I really hope that it stays that way when my children are in school. There are some things that just shouldn't change. I remember being in school and learning about subjects and it being enjoyable to an extent, it's so unfortunate that now the children are having to learn about a standardized test.
Ted-Schools kill creativity I loved listening to Ted Robinson. He makes a serious topic on education funny and interesting. He made so many good points throughout the video about children and talent. It's so true that children are deprived of creativity now. In the classroom, children rarely get to experience art in the classroom because teachers are so focused on making sure their students do well on the standardized test.
When we are children we are constantly told how anything to do with art is never going to make money. I think that people should do what makes them happy in life, but these days money seems to be the only thing that makes people happy. I thought it was really funny when Ted Robinson was talking about Shakespeare, and he made a good point about picturing Shakespeare with a father or in a classroom. I also liked the story about the little girl who ended up just wanting to dance.
Breaking Creative Myths-That is unreal that Finland's dropout rate is only 1% compared to the United States 25%. Something has got to be done in the school systems in the United States, but what is there to do?!? People are always coming up with "solutions" to help children stay in school but nothing seems to really work. I really like Ted Robinson's outlook on creativity.
He is so right with all of his points towards the myths of creativity. I think every child has creativity, it's just a matter of how it is brought out to the child early in life. I think creativity is going to continue to get further and further out of education because it's not a focus in the classroom.
Students Digital Smarter- This video reminded me of EDM 310. I think that high schools should have more technology in the classroom to help students be prepared. Now that colleges, are starting to put classes on the internet, we should be more technology intelligent to be prepared. I never realized until the past couple of weeks in this class how much blogs, twitter, and facebook can be so useful.
Sometimes, we can learn from students especially with technology. This video ended off the rest of the videos I watched, by making me appreciate technology!
Sunday, January 23, 2011
About Me
My name is Ashley Welch, I am twenty years old. I am from Mobile, Alabama and have lived here my entire life. This is my third year at the University of South Alabama. South wasn't my first choice of school to attend when deciding in high school, because living here all of my life I wanted a change. Now, I am really glad I made the decision and stayed home to attend South Alabama. I started off in Secondary Education, but soon realized that young children were a better choice for me.
I graduated from Murphy High School located in Mobile, Alabama in 2008. I plan on graduating in hopefully the year of 2012 and teaching somewhere in Mobile. I currently work for Three Georges and the Nuthouse, for those of you who do not know what that is, it's a cute little candy shop. I currently still live at home with my parents and my 16 year old sister. I'm very blessed to have such an awesome family, who I enjoy spending a lot of my time with. I love to do anything outside especially on a pretty day!
I graduated from Murphy High School located in Mobile, Alabama in 2008. I plan on graduating in hopefully the year of 2012 and teaching somewhere in Mobile. I currently work for Three Georges and the Nuthouse, for those of you who do not know what that is, it's a cute little candy shop. I currently still live at home with my parents and my 16 year old sister. I'm very blessed to have such an awesome family, who I enjoy spending a lot of my time with. I love to do anything outside especially on a pretty day!
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