Blog Assignment # 2

Did You Know?

After watching the video, Did You Know 3.0, by Karl Fisch and Scott McLeod I was in awe! It is crazy to see how much our world has progressed over the past 20 years or so. The fact that I found most interesting was that we are preparing students for jobs that don't even exist yet, this just shows how much Another interesting fact is that in the year 2049 they predict that there will be a $1000 computer that will exceed the computational capabilities of the entire human species, which is just completely mind-boggling to me!
I really enjoyed this video and I have learned a great deal from it. Eventually technology will be used for everything. This video has shown me that becoming technologically literate is becoming more and more important every day!

Mr. Winkle Wakes

When Mr. Winkle wakes up after 100 years he learns that just about everything has changed. From the tall buildings, offices with all sort of new technology, and the hospitals with machines that can keep people alive. He began to feel overwhelmed by all of the new innovations that had taken place throughout those past 100 years. That was until he walked into one of the schools... To Mr. Winkle the schools had barely changed at all! The children still took handwritten notes while listening to the teachers lecture. There was no interaction from the outside world except for a computer that was in the back of the room.

Mathew Needleman's video, Mr. Winkle Wakes, shows us that our world has changed in so many amazing ways over the past 100 years, but that schools have yet to become advanced in such a way that the children use technology, such as computers and the Internet ,in more of an everyday routine to help them learn.

Sir Ken Robinson: The Importance of Creativity

In this video, The Importance of Creativity, Mr. Ken Robinson talks about how children have an extraordinary capacity for innovation and how we, as adults, don't try and develop these abilities. Some of the educators today have a way of teaching that shows the children that being wrong is never a good thing, in my opinion we learn by making mistakes. We have to allow our children to be themselves and not what we want them to be, we have to allow them to be creative so that they can learn how to come up with thing on their own. Mr. Robinson says "If you're not prepared to be wrong, you will never come up with anything original!"

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

In my opinion Cecilia Gault's Interview with Sir Ken Robinson was a very interesting video. I completely agree with Sir Robinson in everything that he said in this video. For one, changing the curriculum to better include the use of the new technologies that we have readily available today. The older teachers of today learned in a different way that we do now. They didn't have access to all of the technologies we have today, but now the teachers of today should know how to use these technologies and better integrate the use of them in their classrooms.

A way for me to make sure that the "Cecelia Gaults" in my classroom receive as good of an education as the Cecilia Gault in the video would be to better integrate the arts and technologies that I have learned during my education. To me art was always my favorite class and I always enjoyed doing art projects because it doesn't matter what you do or how you do it, everyone has their own way of creating art. So far this EDM310 class has taught me some very interesting ways to use computers that I have never once thought of doing. I would like to teach my future students some of the things that I have learned in this class.

 Vicki Davis: Harness Your Students' Digital Smarts
This video, Harness Your Sudents' Digital Smarts is very eye opening! It is amazing what can be done with computers in the classroom. In my future classroom I would like to try and integrate as many of the things that Ms. Vicki Davis utilizes in her classroom. For her being in such a small town, she has really been able to show her students so many amazing skills.
 Her students are even communicating and blogging with children all over the world. To me this is incredible! Learning about other cultures is, in my mind, very important.
In today's society, knowing how to use all of this technology is extremely important and the things that Ms. Vicki Davis is teaching can open many doors for her students.