Blog Post #2

Did You Know

In our country today, educators of the nations seem to think technology is effecting our children's education. I think that most technology distracts our children more than it helps them: According to the video most children want to do things that are "fun" with the technology they have such as texting, you-tubing, or social networking - instead of using it according to the rules. The problem lies with the child's desire to learn. So the question is: How can we use technology to keep them interested in learning?

In the video, Doctor Strange referred to India having more "honor" students than the whole U.S.A. has students alone. I think with India being a country not as technologically advanced as the U.S., they have a bigger desire to learn, because they depend on technology less, and depend on education more. They have a smaller distraction in other words. In the U.S. we have phones, laptops, tablets, and the internet that get more of our attention. I think the problem could also possibly start at home.


Mr. Winkle Wakes

This video is portraying how technology over the last century has improved. We can have business meeting across the world, keep people alive with machines, and organize our life on a phone or tablet. It implies that our schools should be using technology to keep up with the outside world.
If we reflect for a while and ponder on how we are where we are today its because of schools without technology. People went to school and learned things to help invent technology for us today.


Creativity

This video has a lot of great topics on how our school systems are killing creativity. Instead of letting them expand their minds and finding out how they learn, all of the kids are doing the same thing over and over again. The story that caught my attention was about the young girl who learned by dancing and being in motion. The school pushed her aside and said she was ADHD instead of embracing or accomodating her learning methods. This is a prime example of the schools being lazy. Another point he made that caught my attention is how important it is to let the children be creative at a young age, and letting them continue that creativity until they graduate. They can be creative by expanding their minds to broaden their knowledge on certain subjects. Also, letting them make mistakes, and learning from them.


Thoughts on Mr. Winkle

The video, Mr. Winkle Wakes, is about how we use our technology throughout the world in our everyday lives; such as computers,vehicles, solar technology, etc. My reaction is that we do not even realize how much and fast our technology is changing everyday. We have cars that run off solar power, and we have wifi.
I believe that sooner or later kids will not even have to be in the classroom to attend school. They will watch their class lecture from sites such as Skype and Facetime. Right now, there are homeschool programs such as Abeka that send DVDs for the children to watch. I believe that each child in America should be in a classroom with hands-on activities with pen to paper objectives. This is how they will learn the material and get the full learning experience.


My Top Pinterest Board

On Pinterest, I chose boards such as, the board on education technology for beginners, which is what I am. The board on help with lesson plans is best, because of me being new to teaching. I chose the board with educational resources and to help live classes up, so I will have to liven a boring class up and to have help finding resources for education. Lastly I chose the board that focuses on Elementary technology, because I am going for Elementary Education and I figured it would be nice to have.