Blog Assignment #2
Did you know?”- This video clip on youtube.com had some good facts regarding to the modern world from many years ago. This video shows that technology has increase traumatically. This video also informed that, Americans tends to think that our country is not advanced compared to other countries.
New technology has become increasingly more advanced every day. In this video it points out that we need to keep update with the new information being out there because learning is an ongoing process and we can’t just use it and forget about it.
To me it’s important that we learn the updated information to know as many things as possible. However, it seems to be impossible to learn new technology
“Mr. Winkle Wakes”- This video features a special appearance from a familiar figure from American folklore named Rip Van Winkle. It based on the premise that Mr. Winkle has been asleep for a hundred years and has now woken up to find the world completely different and frightening. He afraid of the use of technology because he is not familiar with it or he don’t know how to use it and he didn’t want to learn either. When Mr. Winkle travels to the modern school, he seems to like it better because everything maintained the same way. This video shows the importance of how we need to learn how to use technology and understand that it will benefit everyone who uses it.
“The Importance of Creativity”-
This video features a speech given by Sir Ken Robinson who focuses on the problems with our current school system. He believed that the biggest problem with schools today is that we didn’t let our children to have be creative because the school systems making the kids learn courses such as math, science, history, and English.
I agree with Robinson because everyone have their own talent and gift that are more valued by different society. As teachers we need to encourage our children to pursue what their interests are so we can teach them in a better with the required courses.
Scholastic Kids Blog: Can U.S. kids compete?
This video covered an interview regarding to the article which was written by a girl named Cecilia Gault. This article informed about many European countries such as, Finland which have very high test and lower dropout rates than US.
This article suggested that we need more and more technology in classrooms and schools in order for our children to become more advanced. I completely agree, because there are schools with lack of resources will not be able to catch up with other kids from kids from school with lots of resources. I think technology is a big part in our life. Hopefully in future every school should have all source of the technology that will help teachers improved their children and create more fun activities for our children in the future.
Harness Your Student’s Digital Smarts
This video is about a high school technology classroom which basically is trying to informing the students how to use different kinds of technology. The students were taught how touse programs such as, google documents and blogging. This is an amazing course because it contains materials that students will need in the future. I like the fact that this teacher is getting the students ahead and help them have a basic understanding of the resources they can use to help them in the future.
