Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Technology and Things Continued
I believe that technology does belong in education. I think that it can greatly help the learning process in the schools, and I think that there is no way that education can escape technology. I like to try to imagine when the majority of people did not have T.V.s. They either thought that they did not need them, or they did not want them. I am sure that slowly raidio talk shows began to be taken off of the radio, and there was not as many stations to hear the news on. I think that it was then when people started switching over to watching T.V. instead of listening to the radio. I think that this will be the same way with technology in education. There may be some people who think it does not belong in the classroom at all, but slowly, the tables will turn, and teachers will not be able to survive without it.
Technology and Things - Blog A
Because so much was brought up in each of these sites, I think that I will respond to them separately.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o
In this first video, I was really surprised to see the breakdown of college kids’ lives. I had never thought about my day or year in terms of numbers. After watching this video, I had to think: how many hours a day do I spend on the internet between Facebooking, AIM, and checking my mail? For me, it was too impossible to figure out because every time I look at Facebook it may just be a couple minutes here and a couple minutes there. The video also made me realize how much technology affects my life compared to how it affected my mother’s life when she was in college. Times change so rapidly: the majority of students own laptops now; twenty or thirty years ago, everything was still hand written or typed on a type writer.
http://mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/?p=84
This video did an amazing job showing just how flexible technology is. It really used technology (not just the video production) but physically computers to demonstrate its flexibility and versatility. One discrete point that the video brought up was “The machine is using us.” It is really scary to think that a program, a machine is learning from us as humans like a robot. For me, that just seems like such a huge step in the history of humans. It is a program that stops needing programming (to a certain extent). I think that it is a crazy idea, but obviously plausible.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEFKfXiCbLw&feature=related
As a future teacher, this website really applied to me. I guess because our generation is so digital, I would automatically assume that I will use the internet and new technology in my classroom. One part I really didn’t think was feasible was the clip about using text messaging for so many things. I guess that because you (or the student’s family) has to pay for cell phones, it would not be that great to make them pay for school assignments that could also be completed with instant messenger. Overall, this video would be great for teachers that have not fully explored all of the possibilities of technology.
http://www.infinitethinking.org/2007/03/itm-6-and-walls-came-tumbling-down.html
I understand that Myspace seems like a great tool, but I, as a teacher, would not recommend it. It used to be really great and innovative, but now, it is relatively unsafe. If I was going to have my students use anything, it would most likely be blogs and Facebook and the other tools that he listed. Myspace has become filled with spam.
http://everyonelearns.blogspot.com/2006/04/do-something-disruptive.html
This article might have had good content, but I think that it was a little too hard to read for the point that was trying to be made. After reading it, I did think that it was a little behind the times. Schools ARE implementing technology, and very rapidly are they doing so. Even when I was in 7th grade, we were using sites like Google for research. And now, in my practicum placement, they are using even more technology!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o
In this first video, I was really surprised to see the breakdown of college kids’ lives. I had never thought about my day or year in terms of numbers. After watching this video, I had to think: how many hours a day do I spend on the internet between Facebooking, AIM, and checking my mail? For me, it was too impossible to figure out because every time I look at Facebook it may just be a couple minutes here and a couple minutes there. The video also made me realize how much technology affects my life compared to how it affected my mother’s life when she was in college. Times change so rapidly: the majority of students own laptops now; twenty or thirty years ago, everything was still hand written or typed on a type writer.
http://mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/?p=84
This video did an amazing job showing just how flexible technology is. It really used technology (not just the video production) but physically computers to demonstrate its flexibility and versatility. One discrete point that the video brought up was “The machine is using us.” It is really scary to think that a program, a machine is learning from us as humans like a robot. For me, that just seems like such a huge step in the history of humans. It is a program that stops needing programming (to a certain extent). I think that it is a crazy idea, but obviously plausible.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEFKfXiCbLw&feature=related
As a future teacher, this website really applied to me. I guess because our generation is so digital, I would automatically assume that I will use the internet and new technology in my classroom. One part I really didn’t think was feasible was the clip about using text messaging for so many things. I guess that because you (or the student’s family) has to pay for cell phones, it would not be that great to make them pay for school assignments that could also be completed with instant messenger. Overall, this video would be great for teachers that have not fully explored all of the possibilities of technology.
http://www.infinitethinking.org/2007/03/itm-6-and-walls-came-tumbling-down.html
I understand that Myspace seems like a great tool, but I, as a teacher, would not recommend it. It used to be really great and innovative, but now, it is relatively unsafe. If I was going to have my students use anything, it would most likely be blogs and Facebook and the other tools that he listed. Myspace has become filled with spam.
http://everyonelearns.blogspot.com/2006/04/do-something-disruptive.html
This article might have had good content, but I think that it was a little too hard to read for the point that was trying to be made. After reading it, I did think that it was a little behind the times. Schools ARE implementing technology, and very rapidly are they doing so. Even when I was in 7th grade, we were using sites like Google for research. And now, in my practicum placement, they are using even more technology!
Thursday, January 24, 2008
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