Blog post #4

Don't Teach Your Kids This Stuff. Please?

McLeod is pretty humorous but has a good point in his message. He wants the kids to be up to par in the technology field and he tries to convince the parents to not let their kids learn these things. It is important that we make our children understand that technology is a part of life now and will be used all the time. He does make some good points that there are bad things that children can see on the internet, but they are very easily avoided if the parents take the right precautions and set up barriers to where their kids want be able to come in contact with it.

Scott McLeod is the co-creator of the Did You Know? Video. He also helped in creating the country's "first graduate program designed to prepare technology-savvy school leaders."

The iSchool initiative

This clip is basically shows us how technology can change how we learn, communicate, and progress. Technology has brought new ways of learning as well as made students use these ways in their advancing lifestyles. It brings about so many different ways of learning in only one object. This is a great video!

The most interesting thing to me in the video is that the indication that iSchool save students up to six hundred dollars and not only that, It would be saving the school money too. It would be so much simpler having only one mechanism to keep up with to instead of having three or four books to lug around.

Lost Generation

This clip has a good point by showing us that things we do or where told to do can be reversed. We have our own choices to make in life. We can reverse these choices by asking ourselves if this is really what I want to do or is this really who I want to be. Our generation should be the one to start the turning point. Different generations where raised in different times and lifestyles in which they can be reversed to.

Eric Whitaker’s Virtual Choir

I was amazed by this musical peace. It is amazing how good they can be without ever practicing together as a group. This clip shows use ways that our technology can be used in different fields such as performing arts. It is just another great way technology can be used in our lives.

Teaching in the 21st Century

Teaching will be simplified in time by having the right technology. Yes, we will still need teachers to aid use around in learning this steps, but with the right technology, every question you want to know can be found it. To teach means the same to me. It is just an upgrade on how simply we can make it.

Presentation project #5

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For my assignment, I had to look at http//:EdTechWorkshop.blogspot.com/

Posted: January 25th 2011
Title: Sharing Our Learning

In the blog post, Andrea Hernandez basically shared her ideas on learning. She had devised better methods in which would help the kids in there learning process. She made the projects more joyful to the kids. She came up with ways to where there kids had projects to what they were interested in. She set up visual aid and let the kids read aloud and understand what they are posting makes their reading and writing skills better. This also let’s the kids start early in the technology field.

Posted: February 1st 2011
Title: 10 Thoughts After EduCon Day 1

Mrs. Hernandez just came up with random thoughts instead of taking her time and making sure her blog was perfect. She basically wrote what was on the top of her head. This helps to remember the feelings you had when you write something down and once you write it down you can refer back to it in time to finish out what you have started. This would clear the mind for new thoughts and ideas.

Blog Post 3

Michael Wesch: A Vision Of Students Today

This clip basically shows the way in which I feel when I go to my classes today. We pay all this money for tuition and books and other fees and get nothing. I want to learn something that is going to helpful in the field of education I am majoring in. Some of the classes I have to take make me feel like I’m in the fourth grade again. I need something that is going to keep me interested and challenge me to do my best and learn new techniques on the way.

The lack of technology and advance is dragging us down and making us less interested in our field of study. This video shows use clearly how our classes are and the facts on the way we feel about them. I think it’s time to step the teaching process up and challenge us more like the way my edm310 class is. For people like me who do not use technology much, it is what most jobs in the future is going to be based on. I have learned more in the first two weeks in Dr. Strange’s class than any other I have probably taken that will be useful to me in the future.

It's Not About the Technology
By: Kelly Hines

Mrs. Hines was right in every perspective she made. This article shared some valuable points and great information on the reason for why we are not being better prepared for the future in learning. The way times our now makes learning a challenge. Most of our teachers were taught the same way as they teach us and that is why they have to be students in the technological learning field.

The teachers have to be willing to change their approach to teaching before us kids in the classrooms will be more focused in learning. It is the same old way of learning every day and that’s why we have to change with the times. The teachers and the students need to upgrade the ways of teaching and learning.

Karl Fisch: Is It Okay to be a Technologically Illiterate Teacher?

I believe it is okay to be technologically illiterate as long as you’re making the effort to change that. Teachers should be on the top of everything when it comes to education but there are something’s they didn’t get taught in school and this why i believe its ok for them to be technologically illiterate. Why would you want to be a teacher if your students are more advanced in the learning field than you are? Really doesn’t make any since if they don’t want to become better instructors.

We are in the advanced times of learning and so should our teachers. Everyone should be willing to learn more in life especially teachers. This will make the learning experience not only for the teachers better in time but also for the students.

Gary Hayes Social Media Count

This clip basically shows how the world is constantly growing in the technological field and us as educators need to be able to contribute and make the changes for a better tomorrow.

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Did You Know?

Facts I would have never known without watching these clips. It is amazing to see how much the world has grown in so many ways. Even though the presentation was documented in 2008, I still couldn’t believe the facts and statics that it presented. It would be awesome to know the number on what the facts our in 2011 would be. In the little bit of time it took me to watch the video, there was some many lives brought in the world and I have never thought about it, so cool to have these facts.

These clips are great attention getters. They show how much the world has changed in just a few years and how technology advances have made it this way, from the facts about the child birth and music downloads and many more amazing facts. The clips shows how much everyone one is growing and how the U. S. needs to move forward on a faster pace to keep up with the other countries. I never knew a couple of weeks ago how cool an enjoyable the clips would be.

Mr. Winkle Wakes

I had to watch this video for my EDM 310 class at University of South Alabama. It really is amazing to see how the times have changed over a hundred years an technology has grown to be an everyday use. Even though is is true that some things are better done the old way. Now the way the world is today in the technological field is so advanced that when Mr. WInkle wakes and sees this he doesnt have a clue what all this is until he makes it to a school where the learning process has been the same for all these years.

I think this clips has shown use what changes have been made and what changes are still to be made. With all the new advances in modern technology, Schools to me should be the first to upgrade the learning process.

The Importance of Creativity

This clip was so pronounced to me in the way Sir Ken Robinson expresses his points on how creative kids should be. He showed that creativity can be put into ways in which makes life easier for people to make choices. He told the kids to be prepared to be wrong, because if we teach the kids to never be wrong then no one will come up with new ways or ideas 0n how to do things.

Ken Robinson goes on about our education an how diverse it is and that we should not limit our children to explore more education. We basically focus on a small part of our education which leaves out the majority which never gets brought up and this is why he wants them to explore more into education. This will help develop our children in a way in which they will be more advanced in the field in the future. I really enjoyed how creative he made this clip. Two thumbs up.

Cecelia Gault's Interview

Celcelia Gauit got a good lesson on listening to Sir Ken Robinson’s discussion. When she is making the interview to Sir Ken, every question she ask him. He always has an accurate answer in response to the question. He gives her the knowledge on what she is asking and the reason from with he has made the response to her.

It seems to me like she gained all the answers in which she was seeking. She is a type of kid that is excited on knowing more facts about the “Three myths of creativity.” There needs to be more kids like Cecelia that is prepared to acquire the knowledge like she is.

Harness Your Students' Digital Smartness

The way Mrs. Davis is going about the social networking is great. She is taking every day rural kids just like us and teaching them the ways to use technology in the classroom as well as the kids teaching her how to use some of the programs too. She makes a good point when she said that some children have limits with only pencil and paper. The computer has many more advances in which the kids can learn on.

She was so amazed that the kids where learning things on their own that she hasn’t taught them to. When the kids figure out something on their own, its gives them a great feeling of accomplishment in which they deserve. The blogs help with the kid’s social skills as well as sharing new ideas with others. This allows kids from rural areas to access foundations from across the world.

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Blog post 1

I grew up in a little place called Goodway. I have two older brothers. I went to school at J.U.Blacksher for 13 years from which I graduated in 2008 and now I am currently attending South to enter the elementary education program. I have been raised around kids all my life because my mom has an in home daycare so kids are what I know and I enjoy being around them. That is why I chosen the major I have. Its a new world for me at South. I am making the best of it though. This is the first time I have lived away from home so i am in a learning experience. I dont have everything gave to me anymore an I have to wash, clean, cook, and so much more. I was so use to someone doing this for me. Life has hit me an im makin the most of it.