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Project # 9 Time Toast

Project # 9

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Blog Assignment # 5

Dr. Scott McLeod

In this post Dr. McLeod gave many reasons why children should not use the internet. The reasons he gave where sound and very true. For example he made the points of sexting and online predators. This is very dangerous to children and can be life threatening. He is very anti internet in the post. Which he makes very good points but I think some internet is needed. In my comment on his blog I gave the example of my grandfather's generation being very smart and not ever using the internet. But that generation did not depend on computers like we do today, to communicate and to do various jobs. I think some internet is needed, but it should be monitored. Before the post I did not know who Scott McLeod was. After researching I have learned he is one of the nation's leading expert on the technological k-12 issues. He is also is a professor at the University of Kentucky.

Travis Allen

 In these two videos Travis Allen changed my opinion on how students can learn in a classroom. He makes the point of how much it cost a student to learn in a public school. It cost as much as six hundred dollars. It cost this much because of the books, calculators, pencils and other supplies. He wants our classes to be taught with touch screen devices in a program called ischool. This device has text books, library books, calculators, notes, and maps on it. It also has many other useful tools on it. With this ischool, the school systems could save so much money. Students would also get the technology they need to survive in today's society. I also like the point of saving natural resources  by not using  paper and other classroom items. The students can also email, save lectures, and search educational websites. I used to think that we should not use technology as much, but now I see many advantages to it!


Jennifer Chamber

This was an amazing way to use the internet. 185 people who have never met did this! I couldn't believe it. I even made my fiance watch! Just think what used to take hours upon hours of practicing to do was accomplished by 185 people never meeting, but making a video and sharing it into one huge choir!


Teaching in the 21st Century

This video brings up many good questions for teachers. Questions like, " what do I do when my connecting flight is canceled", or " should I buy or rent", how can you as a teacher teach your students how to answer these two questions. Well the video gives one way with many options, the internet. A student could use Google to answer both of these questions.  This what Roberts thinks it means to teach in the 21 century. Using technology as problem solving skills, and to get information. He makes the point of the difference of entertainment and engagement. Theses devices such as the computer and cell phone are not just for pure entertainment anymore. The difference is engagement is a long term learning experience, entertainment is short lived. As a 21st century teacher, I need to use technology in my classroom, it will be very vital to my students' success.

Blog assignment # 4

Eagle Nest Radio & Class Blog


I really enjoyed this podcast and class blog! I watched or listened the podcast on sharks. The students made the podcast about sharks with some "fin-tastic" facts. The students used one main narrator and a few other students to do different parts of the show. For example the "poetry paradise" where a student shares a poem he or she likes. Something in their podcast I can use in mine is the way they broke the show into segments. Such as "poetry paradise", "did you know", and the " vocabulary vault". This is a cool way to make a podcast  interesting, yet educational.

Practical Principle

 I did not know all of the facts about pod casting, before  this video . Podcast is so influential to students because of how familiar students are with podcast. It is an very effective way to interact with students outside of the classroom. For example, if a student is sick or has to miss school for an extended amount of time.Podcast also generate lots of creativity, because student can express themselves. Also students learn valuable technology skills. Pod casts also allow parents too be apart of , and see what their children are learning. I as a teacher, can use podcast to incorporate technology and reach my students anywhere.

100 Ways To Use Your Ipod To Learn and Study Better

This site is great! I learned so much from it. Basically it is a list of a hundred ways to better your study and learning habits by using your ipod.  I learned you can use your ipod to use Spark Notes, (which is very helpful to a college student) and to use study guides. You can also use the ipod for cram sessions and too study for the SAT. This is very helpful for all students. I can use these helpful tips in my podcast by listening to other podcast for ideas and to learn how to do new things with podcast.

Project # 6 My sentence

C4T Assignment Summary

 My Summary

For my first C4T assignment in EDM310, I was assigned the blog, Dianne's Digital Discoveries. This blog was very interesting to read and to comment on. The first post I commented on was titled "911 Rise: Reconnect & Remember - Discovery Education ". It is about the tenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks. The goal of the post was to educate and teach today's students about the events that took place on that day. The link was to show student's the American's most impacted of that day. I commented by saying what I was doing that day and where I was. The second post I commented on was titled " What's you learning style? Edutopia " . This post was about learning styles of people. It contained a quiz that let you see what style of learning you had. I took the quiz and I found out That I had a naturalistic learning style. It made me realize that everybody has a unique learning style. It would really be nice if teachers would test students to see every learning style in the class, and change the curriculum to meet the class.

Blog post # 2

Did you know?  By, Karl Fisch and Scott McLeod 

This is a video is very informing. It was very interesting to see all of the facts about the internet and the countries mentioned. I did not know how much our world depends on and uses technology as much as it does. For example the radio is no longer the only way to reach a mass audience. We now have the internet with social networking sites.The video said that one in eight couples get married after meeting on a social networking site.I did know the facts about the jobs either. That one in four people have had the same job for less than a year. One in two people have had the same job for less than five years. It is amazing to me how much technology changes so fast.

Mr. Winkle Wakes

This video was about Mr. Winkle who wakes up and realizes all the things that have changed while he had been asleep. He sees all the new technology. Technology such as computers, printers. Being overwhelmed by this he decides to go to a hospital and he then sees all the machines hospitals have to keep people alive.He goes to the school and notices it does not have the technology there and he feels comfortable.In summary Mr. Winkle did not like the advance technology of the offices and hospital, but he enjoyed the school which had no technology, the same as when he was in school.

Sir Ken Robinson: The Importance of Creativity

Sir Ken Robinson says that education kills creativity. Sometimes being wrong is also being creative, with kids.When kids become adults they lose their creativity because they are frightened of being wrong.The education system of today is working people out of creativity. All children are born as artist the hard part is staying one as an adult.He says that the whole outcome of the public education system is to create university professors.The education system is the way it is because of the time frame of which it was established. At that time it was hard to get a job in the arts, such as an artist or musician. Today on the other the whole world is in a revolution of art.

Cecelia Gault (Young Student in Finland) Interviews Sir Ken Robinson

I respond by saying I agree the curriculum should be changed to add more art, science and technology. Also that the community and schools need a stronger connection together. The three myths of education are that not everybody is creative, that you can only be creative about certain things, and you can not be taught to be creative. Which none of these are true. Everybody is creative and everything can be creative. I could help my future students by incorporating new technologies, and news arts to my classroom for my students.


Vicki Davis: Harness Your Students' Digital Smarts

When you as a teacher only have paper and ideas of who will succeed as students is when your students aren't learning as much as they can. Vicki Davis harnesses as much technology she can to teach her students. Her curriculum includes, twitter, Wikipedia , Google, and much more. Her students learn in a motivated setting . Some teachers think that they need to know everything about a program to teach it, but this is not true. A teacher can learn with the students. When I become a teacher I can learn to use all these new programs to connect my class with the world like Vickie did.

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