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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