The video that I watched described the different ways that will help people and students to research and find results of different things on their own. Without even leaving your house students can research and find academic facts about Virginia Tech like Richard Miller did. With multimedia tools we can now do print documents, visual documents, and sound documents. The different things that can be done with your computer is compelling. Richard Miller talked about how recordings can be done by using ITunes U and students can follow professors that are giving academic lectures. With multimedia you can find what city is the happiest city in the world, when Richard said this, my jaw dropped.
I think that I am somewhat prepared to write with multimedia. Since I am familiar with the basic skills of making something creative on the web, I think that this digital material will enhance the quality of my school work that is based on multimedia. When I begin teaching I will like to teach my students the basic concepts of doing things that are with multimedia. Even though, most students who I will teach may not know anything about multimedia, I think that I am responsible for giving them the insights of how it should be used and what they can do with it.
Composing with this digital material helps people to be more creative in their work. This digital material makes compositions beautiful and much more compelling. I think that this tool is a great innovative tool to help students to become better educators and to share what they have created or have learned with others. I think that people should not just have a desktop or laptop that sits and they do nothing with it. With a computer people can do more than what their minds may not even think that could be possible to do.
The Chipper Series and EDM310 for Dummies
I really enjoyed these two projects, they were very interesting to watch and had a very positive outlook for students who will take EDM310 and for current students in this type of class. I would like for my video to be about students not giving up so fast. I have many friends who have felt that the work load in many classes is just to much and they just stop coming to class and say that they don't care about their grades anyways. Sometimes students will say things like I don't need any of this stuff that these teachers are talking about, but they don't understand that in their future lives all of these things that the teachers are discussing will be dominating in the classrooms. There are many students who think that learning should be quick and easy, but learning sometimes takes time and practice until you get the concept. As a musician if I say that I want to play an instrument, but I don't want to learn. Well, a church or group is looking for a musician and they tell you to play amazing grace, whether you are playing by ear or notes you have to learn and you have to practice, there is no other way out of this. Students should be more of a role model so that others can see their accomplishments as they continue their journey in life.
The two videos that were presented for this lesson was a great example of why staying in college is important and how EDM for dummies can relieve the stress that students may face in their EDM310 class. As in the video chipper, the young lady thought that the teacher is suppose to teach in a way that she does not have to learn. Life is all about learning, and taking things and analyzing it. When you were a baby you had the courage to learn how to walk. That is just what we suppose to continue doing throughout life is to learn and to never stop learning.
Learn to Change, Change to Learn
I think that many of the arguments stated in this video describes things that could help students to become smarter and to help teacher to become better educators. Schooling to me should be connected through the communities, because this is where the kids come from. I agree that if teachers are provided with the tools to make great things happen and they are taught how to effectively use it than the students will be able to succeed. Schools are now looking for ways to build a school society that develops brave children and genius learners. Schooling should be about children understanding the concepts, working in groups or teams, being around other cultures, and using their artistic abilities.
The Secret Powers of Time by Philip Zambardo and Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by David Pink
The Secret Powers of Time is a great example of what is happening in schools today. As in the video it stated that a child drops out of school every nine seconds, which in my eyes is a disaster and this needs to be changed. In the video boys tend to be the ones who are most likely to drop out of school than girls, and their time is mostly used on videos games and other leisure stuff. So, for a boy to be productive in a classroom he needs something where he can be continuously active. One of the key things that I learned from this video is that children minds have been digitally rewired and the traditional schooling will not work. This message will help teachers to understand and to develop newer concepts in their classrooms. If teachers of today can start doing these things, I think that they will be more successful as an educator and as a person.
The experiments that were done seemed that it could be something that could be used in the classrooms. As people say, the better the award the better the student will perform. Well, that did not go well in this video, the more rudimentary the award, the students performed poorly. When students had to do more and the work began to get more complicated the work was done poorly. They have found that people who are willing to do things instead of receiving big pay and they do it for free do great things and sometimes the things that they do are incredible. This purpose motive helps them to be more innovative and to be better at what they are doing. These things are done to make the world a better place. I think that these ideas and facts can make educators to become better in their work ethics, and will help people to be more successful even when they may not understand it.
"...most students who I will teach may not know anything about multimedia..." I think you are wrong. I think most, if not all, are likely to know as much or more about multimedia than you. How much do you want to bet?
ReplyDelete"There are many students who think that learning should be quick and easy..." Unfortunately, you are correct. Nor do they know that learning must never end!
"So, for a boy to be reproductive in a classroom he needs something where he can be continuously active." You are correct but I do not think what you wrote is what you intended to say. Not reproductive but productive!