Blog Assignment #2

Did You Know 3.0?

I think that watching this video helped me to know what the world is becoming. Using technology to perform everyday skills will make life much easier. As in the video the number of people using technology grows each day. There is so much technology being created every year that it is hard to keep up. One moment you are using a computer, the next month an Ipad has been invented.
Seeing that technology is evolving into different ways is kind of scary, but it is helpful in many ways. Computers that will be smarter than the human brain is a very powerful tool and can sometimes be used for other informal reasons. As the world becomes more technological literate more people will be dependent on these computerized devices.

Mr. Winkle Wakes 

As Mr. Winkle walked around the city he saw that everything has changed. Mr. Winkle did not like this change and wanted everything to be like it was a hundred years ago. He saw business people talking to each other through the computers. Everywhere he turned their was some type of technology machine. People were sending fax papers from distant countries to their employees. People were kept alive by machines in the hospitals, but one place that was not technology literate was the nearby school.
I think that this shows how today's students are lacking the education needed to know about technology. Each classroom should have computers so that students can do their homework and socialize with other students across the world. Technology should be the basis of the classrooms for today's society. This video explains how schools are still lacking to provide the proper tools, so that kids want be so bored in the classrooms.

Sir Ken Robinson: The Importance of Creativity

When children are being creative we should not tell them that they are doing it wrong. As in the video a student was drawing God, but the teacher said that no one knows how God looks. When a teacher tells a student to not be imaginative and creative by using their ideas they are actually keeping many children from excelling.
Just like the girl who always moved all the time and could not stay still the teachers underestimated her ability to learn. Most teachers would say that children who move are ADD, but these students are smart and use movement to think quickly. Underestimating students abilities to learn can cause mental damage because they will always think that they are to slow to learn and are disruptive to the classroom.

Cecelia Gault (Young Student in Finland) Interviews Sir Ken Robinson

I think that Cecelia Gault discussed a lot of things that are pertaining to the schools and the students themselves. Some of the things that Cecelia interviewed Sir Ken Robinson about, were the three methods that he talks about in his book. His first method was that everyone is creative and he feels that no one lacks the knowledge of being creative. The second method was that people can be creative about certain things like design or advertising. His third method was that if a person is not creative they can be taught to become a creative person.
When Sir Ken Robinson talked about technology being more prominent in today's society, children should be able to perform those technological abilities that they have while they are in school also. Using technology for the basis of student learning can also improve their intellectual understanding of wanting to be more curious about what certain applications can do. Another topic that was stressed in this interview was that Sir Ken Robinson considered intelligence to be diverse, intelligence is a word that has many definitions and is very arguable. While diverse has been stated, subjects like science and art should be balanced in the child's every day life. Balancing different subjects helps children to be quick thinkers and they can be smart in every subject.

Vicki Davis: Harness Your Students' Digital Smarts

I really like how Vicki Davis is using technology to connect her students to the world. She teaches her students the fundamental basics of using gaming programs to create characters and those characters move around. The students are taught to do blog posts and enhance their use on famous networks like twitter. As these students understand technology these students' are harnessing their digital smarts. These students are constantly learning and they are learning at a faster pace.
One important thing that Vicki talked about was that most teachers think that if they do not know everything about using technology than they can  not teach it. Vicki said that she is not totally the smartest geek person on computers and sometimes her students' show her different ways to use technological applications. What Vicki is trying to say is that there is nothing wrong with not knowing everything about technology and their is nothing wrong with learning form your students.