By: John Strange
Link: coming soon
This video was pretty interesting, when you put everything into percentages and actually look at them its crazy. 96% of College students all had cell phones, high school kids spent almost 2 hours on their cell phones daily just texting. To me most of the percentages caught me off guard for example, in India they have smarter kids then the U.S. by far. In China more people speak English then probably in the entire U.S.
This video made me think that we need to step our education level up. The Chinese people be for long will have more people speaking English then the entire world. If they can do that then I don't see why the U. S. cannot have more Chinese speaking Americans. I like how at the end it asked are you ready to be an educator? This got me pumped up ready to go!
A day made of Glass
A Day Made of Glass 2
A Day Made of Glass 2: Unpacked. The Story Behind Corning's Vision.
Project Glass: Live Demo at Google
While watching this video I could not believe what i was seeing, it was truley awsome. People woke up and the curtians were made of glass, the refireigator was touch screen and also made of glass. anything you can image was touch screen and computer processable. Very neat to be able to see this in my lifetime. Makes you wounder what they will come out with next!
Mr. Winkle Wakes
By:Mathew Needleman
Link: coming soon
In this video Mr. Winkle wakes from a 100 year nap. He goes to what I'm assuming used to be his job, where he finds technology that he has never seen or heard before. He realizes you can talk to people on computers and with all these new things he gets over whelmed. Mr. Winkles goes to the hospital and he finds people on life support being kept a live by machines, he is blown away by this and cannot believe what his eyes are seeing. He leaves the doctor office and walks and walks until he comes up on a school. When he goes inside the classroom he automatically is familiar with everything. He knows exactly where he is at, the teacher talks for hours while the class learns. as he leaves school he notices one of the computers like he saw at the job place in the back of the room with dust on it. While leaving the school he smiles and is happy at least one thing hasn't changed.
This entire video to me is saying that as the world evolves with technology and changes schools are staying the same. Needleman is pin pointing that Mr. Winkle is completely comfortable in the school building because in 100 years it has not changed at all. i disagree with this video, because if you were to go into a school 100 years from now just imagine all the things they would have. schools to me are going all tech, with smart boards they hardly even use the chalk board. Over projectors are considered "antiques". Schools to me should go back to the pen and paper, yes computers are wonderful to have but when it comes to learning i would rather put 45 min into writing and reading not trying to figure out what website to go to and how to make my computer faster not even on the assignment yet. School should not be a place where you meet for 30 min and then go home and do it all yourself. this is my opinion on this topic.
Title: The Importance of Creativity
By: Sir Ken Robinson
Link: coming soon
Sir Ken Robinson explains that we are trying to teach but we don't even know how the world will be in 5 years in other words the kids that's are in school now 2012, will graduate college in 2026. he goes on to strongly say that it is very important for kids to have imagination. Kids are not afraid of being wrong, they are just creative. by the time kids are adults they have lost this sense of creativity and they are scared to make mistakes. Picasso once said that all kids are born a artist but the key is keeping that as you grow up. he said that every education system has the same levels, math and language then humanity and at the bottom are the arts. Art and music are usually taught more then drama and dance. he says that the whole purpose of public school though out the world is to produce university professors. the whole system was invented with two ideas number 1:Getting a job 2: academic ability. Suddenly degrees are worth nothing, because now days more people are going to college then every before.
I agree 100% with Sir Ken Robinson, I think that we always applaud kids who are extraordinary in science more then the kid who can draw amazingly. I believe that we need to keep the imagination through out our life, without it life just seems dull. I have a personal experience with this actually when i first went to college i was a fine arts student, my family and Friends all kept asking me what i planed on doing with a art degree. I thought the same thing and it wasn't long before I dropped out of the fine arts department and changed my major. That is proof that this video has some true points to it. I would like to teach 2nd grade and only for one reason really, they will still have some of the imagination like Sir Ken is talking about and I want to savor it.
As I was watching the Mr.Winkles video when he saw all the new technology around him and then saw how the school had not changed at all after his 100 year nap, I did not agree with the video. To me schools have changed and they are up to date with technology,or I thought so until I watched A Day Made of Glass. When I watched this video I actually felt like Mr. Winkles I was amazed. It was hard to believe that everything going on in the video could be real.
When I watched A Day Made of Glass they had an entire glass house that was touch screen/computer based. It made everything seem so easy, as they Brushed their teeth and weather forecast showed up on the mirror with a messaged. I think of the future and the technology that has already been developed but not seen yet and I cant help but get excited. The excitement comes because I can not wait to be able to use this kind of technology while teaching. Touch screen or even a glass chalk board would be awesome. This video opened my eyes to new technology just like Mr. Winkles eyes were opened.
