EDM310 class blog assignment #2

Did You Know? 3.0- A John Strange Version.
In the video originally created by Karl Fisch and Scott McLead it discusses how the world is evolving do to technology and the influence of second language speaking English students. Technology is a key to future success. Millions search Google every minute and in that same minute a SMS has been sent. Every minute millions has watched or upload a video to YouTube. Technology is the new form of communicating without have to write on a piece of paper or sit face to face.
The video also discuss how India has the highest IQs in grades k-12. India’s numbers beat the United States by a mile. In grades k-12, “25% of the students are Honor students (Did You Know? 3.0- A John Strange Version).” Gordon Brown prediction is by “2025 the number of English speaking Chinese would likely exceed the number of Native English Speaker.” Each day millions are learning to speak English; not counting the millions who already know how to speak English. Watching the video opened my eye to how I need to be a little knowledgeable about English as a second language students and technology. I also need to include technology in my everyday teaching style.
Mr. Winkle Wakes
By Mathew Needleman
Mr. Winkle Wake’s video discusses how over the past 100 years everything in the world has changed so much do to technology. A person could no longer go down the road and be healed by the witch doctor. The simple just doesn’t work anymore. All hospitals are equipped with the best technology to keep a person alive. Computers are not just in the hospitals, but they are also in the business offices. People no longer have to travel to have a business meeting; they could communicate from their office computer.
The only thing to Mr. Winkle that hasn't changed was the classrooms. School still has the old fashion sit down and listen to your teacher, while they lecture. There was an old computer sitting in the back that no one seemed to care about. The video was uploaded 2008 and since then technology has been added to the classroom. Smartboards are almost in every classroom for the teachers and students to use. We have recently received our smartboard and the students enjoy every lesson that involves the smartboard. Smartboards are just the beginning of the every changing technology world.
Sir Ken Robinson: The Importance of Creativity
Sir Ken Robinson had very good points about creativity in education. He believes that we are “education our children for a future that we are very unaware of (Sir Ken Robinson: The Importance of Creativity).” Creativity to Robinson is just as important as math, literacy, and every other subject. He believes that children will take a chance because they are not afraid of being wrong. Taking a chance makes them creative.
We “educate our children out of creativity” by putting them on medication because they can’t sit still. That is something I have done in my life time with my own child. My son seemed to me to have ADHD because he would talk, talk, and talk. It seemed as if he had an extra kicked that other children his aged didn’t, so I as a concerned parent talked to a doctor and began to medicaid him. As time went on I noticed that he is the same on or off the medication, therefore I saw a specialize that IQ tested him. The dcotor said he is a genius who is bored in class. I now use what I have learned to teach my pre-k students. Like Robinson, I believe that creativity should be just as important as everything else. My students learn through movement (dance) or music and they know just as much as the student sitting there listening to a teacher lecture or even more.
A Day Made of Glass
The video "A Day Made of Glass 2" is an eye opening video compared to "Mr. Winkle Wakes." Mr. Winkle’s fear of the newly changing world was just the beginning of what the world is going to look like. The things that Mr. Winkle discussed in his video are what's happening right now, but A Day Made of Glass is our future. Everything was pulled from out of the sky it seemed like in A Day Made of Glass. The students were learning from a glass laptop that projected from the glass smartboard. The field trips looked and  seemed as if they were there in the mist of the dinosaurs. The future is amazing, she was able to touch her closet door and select the items that she wanted to wear. The doctor was able to help one another in different parts of the world and seems as if they were face to face.
From watching the video our future seems to be filled with glass technology. Everything seems like you will be able to reach out and grab it or live in that moment. Mr. Winkle Wakes’ video seems like old news compare to" A Day Made of Glass". The future made of glass will be great, but it will lack those hands on experiences. People will to stop trying to do for them self’s if they are able to have the experience they will with glass technology. A Day Made of Glass will have its good and bad because it will only make us depend more on computers then our own brains.<br />
Revised 9-19-2012 do to classmate comments