I thought the fact that the top quarter of India's smartest people outnumber all of the U.S. I thought that honors students were a smaller percentage than 25. The fact that India has more honors students than we have students is a little overwhelming.
Having more people in China speaking English than the rest of the world will be scary no matter how far in the future it will be. If the "learners" learn English they will outnumber everyone that speaks English in America. That would be awesome it would seriously aid trade and make it so much easier to communicate with the rest of the world.
I found the Rip van Winkle video to be a little pompous. I can agree that school hasn't changed as much as it could or should have, but this video makes it seem like the education system is completely stagnant and ineffective.
I understand that humor and satire is used to force changes in society, but it isn't always helpful. Sometimes videos like this anger people more than is spurs them to want change.
Sir Ken Robinson's video was actually fairly amusing and enlightening. He's right about creativity being as important as literacy. If you stifle a students creativity you will destroy that child's potential. I absolutely loved the story about the girl who drew God. It seemed that the main point of his speech was about how varied and unique children are before societal norms force them to give up their creativity and individualism. Of all of the videos on this assignment I enjoyed this one the most.
The "A Vision for 21st Century Learning" video confused me. I couldn't tell if they meant that these games the were waking were to supplement traditional teaching or to replace traditional teachers. I can see how these programs would be good in theory. While many students would indeed enjoy these programs I doubt they would learn anymore from them than from a normal class. If I were to use one chances are I would have fun, but there is almost no way I would retain all of the information.
The "Harness Your Students' Digital Smarts" once more kind of annoyed me. The part where she said that students can't learn with traditional methods alone kind of upset me because this has always been the manner of teaching that has been the most useful for me. I had teachers that used technology more than traditional methods, and I have never been able to retain it nearly as well as "chalk and talk" methods. Of all of the technological usages that she discussed that I am really fond of is her use of Wikis.
I agree with you that technology is frustrating and can be annoying, but this is what the world is evolving to. Technology is an excellent way to both teach and learn and to also connect with others throughout the world to use their ideas and advice as a tool to help with the teaching methods in your classroom. By using technology, we can teach students in a collaborative and interactive way that would not have been possible years ago. We must be aware of these methods in order to effectively prepare our students for years to come.
ReplyDelete"Sometimes videos like this anger people more than is spurs them to want change." Wow! Are people in general really so sensitive? Are you? Why, then, does Fox survive?
ReplyDelete"...that these games the were waking were to supplement traditional teaching.." reread this. What did you intend to say?
"... but there is almost no way I would retain all of the information." Why should this be the objective when we can look everything up?
"The part where she said that students can't learn with traditional methods alone kind of upset me because this has always been the manner of teaching that has been the most useful for me." But does everyone learn as you do?
"I have never been able to retain it ..." Again I ask: Is "retain it" what learning should be about? Or should "do it" be the objective?
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ReplyDeleteI really loved your thoughts on your required readings
ReplyDeleteMade very good detail and i would have known what you were writing on even if i had not seen the videos.
Very good organization.
Some of your sentences are a tad bit to long.
Could have started some of the sentences with other word besides the.
Give a little more detail in your sentence so we the reader no were you are going with the sentence.
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I found the Rip Van Winkle video to be a little pompous. I can agree that school hasn't changed as much as it could or should have, but this video makes it seem like the education system is completely stagnant and ineffective.
I understand that humor and satire is used to force changes in society, but it isn't always helpful. Sometimes videos like this anger people more than is spurs them to want change.
Sir Ken Robinson's video was actually fairly amusing and enlightening. He's right about creativity being as important as literacy. If you stifle a students creativity you will destroy that child's potential. I absolutely loved the story about the girl who drew God. It seemed that the main point of his speech was about how varied and unique children are before societal norms force them to give up their creativity and individualism. Of all of the videos on this assignment I enjoyed this one the most.
The "A Vision for 21st Century Learning" video confused me. I couldn't tell if they meant that these games the were waking were to supplement traditional teaching or to replace traditional teachers. I can see how these programs would be good in theory. While many students would indeed enjoy these programs I doubt they would learn anymore from them than from a normal class. If I were to use one chances are I would have fun, but there is almost no way I would retain all of the information.
The "Harness Your Students' Digital Smarts" once more kind of annoyed me. The part where she said that students can't learn with traditional methods alone kind of upset me because this has always been the manner of teaching that has been the most useful for me. I had teachers that used technology more than traditional methods, and I have never been able to retain it nearly as well as "chalk and talk" methods. Of all of the technological usages that she discussed that I am really fond of is her use of Wikis.