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!