It is amazing how quickly the technology continues to change.This video had a lot of very good and useful information. I really enjoyed watching and listening to all the beneficial information that was being presented. I mean if you sit back and think about phones and how all you use to do was call and now you text,call,facetime,heytell,email and play games. The technology field is always increasing, as well as the age groups who are using it. I mean there are toddlers and all up using cellphones, playing on computers and most of the time the younger ones are more advanced with the technology than adults.
This video should make you wake up and realize, that we can not sit back and not focus on furthering our education on the new technological advancements in the world. Technology plays a big role in the lives of teachers, so it is necessary to also learn as much as you can and keep yourself up to date with the advancements.
2. Mr Winkle Wakes
His story is relatively true. The same teaching methods have been taught year after year and time after time. It is very boring and slightly depressing if I may say so myself. I mean just in the previous video we see how fast technology is changing and how much it is advancing,but yet ans still we have the same outdated teaching methods.
This video was presented in a funny way, but that is to capture your attention and to get you to focus on what is being said. The matter itself is no joke, it is very serious. This issue needs to be changed and reinvented for the children. Maybe if every school and teacher could view this video, it may help them get on the right track and actually want to learn new ways to make things more interesting for their students.
3.Sir Ken Robinson: The Importance of Creativity
Sir Ken Robinson is an excellent speaker. He is really good at keeping his audience engaged in what he has to say and also keeps them full of excitement and laughter. Those are great qualities for a speaker to obtain. You never want to lose your audience attention, because if so they will hear nothing you have to say. One of the main topics was about creativity and how it is often unused. For example, many of us could probably relate to not be able to express our creativity throughout school because we were told to do things a certain way and follow the example exactly. This would make us put our creativity on the back burner and then just be original, instead of standing out. I think creativity plays a big role in learning, I think students should be able to express their creativity and be unique.
His statement creativity is as important as literacy is a very moving line. It is true teachers should encourage the students to express themselves through their work and emotions. It helps students find out who they are and makes them individuals
4.A Vision for 21st Century Learning
These seem to me to be the main focal points in this video: The current methods being used to teach the children are lacking good results, we need to try changing the methods to make them more interesting and appealing to the children, and I think we should also work on actual teaching children how to retain information instead of just memorizing it.
I agree with the argument, because I think it is necessary to make the methods more interesting for the children. If what they are being taught is interesting, exciting and captures their attention, they will be more focused and excited about the material being taught.
5.Vicki Davis: Harness Your Students' Digital Smarts
The things that Ms. Davis is doing in her classroom is excellent.She is trying to encourage and motivate her students to use the different types of technology that is available to help enhance their learning capability. The things being implied in this video, or the exact things that all teachers should be striving to do for them and the children.If you actually look at the children in her class, they are so excited and looks as if they are so eager to learn. When I become a teacher, I want to feel that energy and see that excitement among my kid's faces everyday.
The classroom conference is a great idea and it seems to be a great way to help benefit the students.I think it was amazing that she got her class to participate in this new learning advancement. Technology is always changing, so I think this helps prepare them for what is to come in the future.
Hi, Joy!
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading this post. I think we had the same opinion on the videos. For Dr. Strange's video, it is truly eye-opening to realize how much we use technology. You were completely right when you stated that most of the younger children know more about technology than adults, and I think this is a perfectly good reason to incorporate technology into the classrooms we will teach.
Mr. Winkle Wakes was a little confusing to me. I wasn't sure if the creator was trying to say that schools should stay the same, or that they should incorporate technology also. I could see the video making both points, but I took it as the second option. When everything around us uses technology, why shouldn't the schools?
I absolutely loved Sir Ken Robinson. He was really good at keeping his audience interested in his presentation. To me, this was one of the most important videos. Creativity of students/children should NOT be ignored. Today, our school systems are focusing more on academics and cutting out the other stuff. Without creativity, the world would be boring. Something needs to be done to put this back into schools.
The last two videos were interesting to me. I think they were related in that students should want to learn, and having technology in the classroom will help that. The smiles on the kids' faces in Mrs. Davis's class was inspiring.
Joy,
ReplyDeleteYou had a lot of great ideas and opinions! Be sure not to let them get muddled with errors. Slow down and edit things like this: "The things being implied in this video, or the exact things that all teachers should be striving to do for them and the children." Or=Are? Also, the comma after video chops up the sentence and makes it harder to understand. Slow down and edit. Other than that, I thought you did great.
Carly