Monday, February 7, 2011

 

 

 

 

 

Don't teach your kids this stuff. Please?

Dr. Scott McLeoud is and associate professor the Educational Administration  program at Iowa State University. He also is the Director of the UCEA Center for the Advanced Study of Technology Leadership in Education. This is the nation’s only academic center dedicated to the technology needs of school administrators, and was a co-creator of the wildly popular video, Did You Know? Shift Happens.

In his blog post "Don't teach your kids this stuff. Please?" He sarcasticaly tells us to not let our kids do stuff like blog, twitter, and facebook. He says we should block it all from them because there is such things as "cyber-bulling" and "sexting". The truth is there are bad things everywhere and if we keep our self from them we are only neglecting ourselves. That is like saying you shouldn't go outside and exercise because you may get hit by a car.

The iSchool Initiative 
 This video is about a 17 year old high school student in Georgia. He believes he has a solution to America's education problem. Schools are taking budget cuts and teachers are loosing their jobs. He thinks that the class room should resort to buying ischools for the students. The ischools are just like iTouches. He showed many different apps that would be useful such as maps, calculators, and formulas. This would be more cost effective and better for our environment. 

I completely agree with this. The amount of paper schools use a year is entirely too much. If we would confine all of our lessons onto a little devices we would be doing the environment a lot of good. We would be saving money and saving trees. It would be unlimited access for the teacher, student, and parents at any time. My hopes are that one day this iSchool initiative will be reality.  

Lost Generation 
 Wow is all I have to say about this video. I watched it at least four times. This is really inspirational and amazing how she changed it all just by reading it backwards. It is easy to say that we are a lost generation because all we care about is money. Families and relationships get put on the back burner because of our jobs. Inner happiness is truly the most important. I will share this video with my friends and hope it inspires them as much as it did me. 

Eric Whiteacre's Virtual Choir
This way absolutely beautiful. To know that people all around the world, who have never met each other, can get together and perform something so amazing is mind blowing. It makes you wonder what else can be done with technology. I believe that there will be more interaction with the rest of the world in class rooms here in the near future. I believe this is very vital to our education. It is so important to know what is going on in the rest of the world and not only in your community.  

Teaching In the 21st Century
This video shows that teaching in the 21st century will be about much more than just giving student facts. Students can get any information that want at any time of the day. We no longer need the teacher to tell us when Columbus discover America. We have Google,  Wikipedia, Bing. All kinds of sources to give us information. What we need is someone to help us learn how to use this information. Teaching in the 21st century will be much more interactive and hands on. 

  

2 comments:

  1. Hailey, Whitney here! I read over your blog posts and I found that you and I had similar reactions to these videos and posts. I enjoyed your blog theme it is very cute! I hope your enjoying EDM and learning alot-- I know I am! :) -Whitney

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  2. You are right on the money with all of your posts this week, great job! I really enjoyed your picture. I am going to use it as an example of picture relevance to blogposts for other students. Thank you for the great example.

    Also, I am glad you are sharing the Lost Generation video. There are a couple great video's throughout this course, and I too believe that is one of them.

    Good work, Hailey.

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