The number of YouTube users and Google users are insane. The world does revolve around technology now and you don't realize it until you see statistics that are real. It's crazy to me how every minute 48 hours are added to the YouTube collection. I honestly feel like more sms text are sent everyday because it seems to be the main way of communicating with others.
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Mr. Winkle Wakes
Mr. Winkle Wakes woke up one day a hundred years later and saw his world turned upside down. He was overwhelmed by the way that everything was ran by computers. The office that he went to where there were workers was strange to him. The workers talked to one another and printed things off with just a click of a button. When he started feeling sick he went to the hospital and also found it to be very strange. He saw the same type of computers and equipment that he saw at the business office.
The hospital still couldn't help his sick feeling. Winkle then went to a school, a place that he seemed to recognize more than the others. He walked in and sat in a desk and listened to the teacher lecture to the student for hours and he didn't complain one time. He seemed to like the way the teacher spoke to the children and taught them new things. He saw a computer there full of dust and not working and that made his day. He really liked school and the way that the world was still learning new things.
The Importance of Creativity
Ken Robinson did a brilliant job of explaining his views on education and creativity. One of the opening statements that he made was my favorite. He talked about how he doesn't get how educators can educator children about the world years from now when educators themselves have no idea what the world will be like or look like. Creativity, to me also, is as important as literacy. If no one thought on their own about the world there would never be new inventions or ways of doing things.
Kids are not afraid to be wrong and are ready to share what is on their mind because they are prepared to be original. I liked how Robinson thinks that we are educating our children out of the creativity that they were born with and that is not a good thing. He made a good point when he talked about children not being allowed to take classes that will not be used in their job field, and I have to agree that is stupid. How else will the world learn new things? Brilliant people really may not think they are smart simply because the classes they are in doesn't allow them to show their intelligence.
A Day Made of Glass 2
This video showed the amazing ways that glass can be used. It pretty much showed how our world works in one video. Everything is always changing and that includes the way that our children learn and our teachers teach. The beginning it was just a touch screen and then it continued on to way more advanced things that I found to be really cool.
Whenever I think about our world in the future it is something like that video. Everything will be touch screen and the way of teaching will be so much more fun. The way of learning will also be different and paper and pens will be a thing of ancient history. My favorite part of the video was when the children were learning their colors and all they had to do was drag one or more colors together and they saw what came out of it. The future will be so much more advanced than it is now and our children will be so much smarter which is definitely not a bad thing.
Kayla,
ReplyDeleteYou met the majority of the requirements for this post, but your image doesn't have working ALT or TITLE modifiers. If you go the instructions for Project #2 then you'll find out how to do that. You included the link to one of the videos but you really need to have the links for all of the videos. This is so anyone who comes to your blog and hasn't watched the videos that you are talking about can go to the links and check out the videos for themselves.
I noticed that you didn't seem to get the point of Mr. Winkle Wakes. The video is meant to highlight how the education system as it is hasn't caught up to the rest of the world in terms of technology.
Before you hit Publish, you need to proof-read your post for spelling and grammar errors. They detract from the impact of your posts.
Hi Kayla,
ReplyDeleteI think that you did a good job of covering the requirements for this post. The ALT modifiers did not work. I agree with Bailey, that if you go in project #2 it tells you how to do that. I liked your paragraph about the "A day made of glass 2" it was a very interesting point of view. As far as the spelling and grammar errors, just pull up word on your computer and copy and paste your work to it. Its really easy to do. Overall i think you did a very good job. Keep up the good work!!