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.