Did You Know?
This video clip was power in the way that it displayed the various statistics comparing the United States to different countries. It is absolutely wonderful how it tells you of how behind the United States are. We as a nation need to take heed in these results and step up to the plate and start hitting some homeruns for the United States. Our science and math departments have got do do better about educating their students. The world is moving forward and we are standing still.
Mr Winkle Wakes.
This clip was unique. It showed Mr. Winkle in cartoon and the technology and people were all real. To me this showed a difference in the two worlds of Mr. Winkle. Mr. Winlke's world did not have all this technology as it display in the world of today. The only thing he recognize was the school system and how things were done in his time. Everything pertaining to school was still the same, nothing had change but the computer in the back of the room that had been barely used.
We see in this clip that the schools are behind in technology. The businesses, hospitals and many more have advanced with world in technology. Here we go again being behind in technology in schools, which puts us behind all the other countries.
Vicki Davis: Harness Your Students' Digital Smarts
Ms. Davis is an inspiration to me. She is exactly what I want to be when I start my teaching profession. She bring the technology to her students and they teach each other. The project of Terraforming was really a learning experience for her students and her self.
She has her students linked to various countries around the world and that is an experience that they can use in years to come. I want to be able to bring the world inside my classroom and to show my students all the possibilities of the world.
Sir Ken Robinson: The Importance of Creativity.
Mr. Robinson is passionate about how creativity has been pushed to the side of academics. Seems to me Mr. Robinson was a creative person who has made it and is contributing to society now. The importance of sciences and maths are just as important as creativity but that the differences we have recognize for our students. Forcing a child to learn of something he is not interested in will only put him the box of being a troublemaker. Instead we as future educator have to learn the weaknesses and strengths of the students we plan on educating.
We as teachers have to be creative in order to reach some of our students. So it's not all on the students but us as well.
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Did You Know didn't tell us how far behind we are. bermuda is 1/4 the size of the City of Mobile! But is should wake us up to the fact that we have a lot to do to provide all of our citizens with continued high speed access to the Internet (and all information in all places at all time). Also, as I discussed in class, the India proposition is because of size and the implicit definition of honor students as the top quarter. The top quarter of students in India with two feet outnumbers the entire student population in the United States. It's because India has more than 4 times as many students as the US does. Be careful with statistics.
ReplyDeleteMaybe it's not behind in technology but in the use of technology as a tool for learning and communicating with the world!
My hope is that every teacher, not just the technology specialists will embrace technology as Ms. Davis does. I also want the students to own the technology and have it with them at all time!
How do we interest students in ... whatever? (Remember the whatever later in the course).