Blog Number 2 for video's

The first video of the second post really blew my mind due to all the people that were being born and the number of jobs that are going to be created in the years to come. The thing that shocked me was the fact that the information that we learn as freshmen in a technical college will be obsolete by the time we are juniors. That is very insane. Also most people in the United States haven't even been at their jobs long. roughly one out of four is at their job less than a year right now. It makes me upset to know that countries like India have more honors kids than the United States has kids. This is one of the reasons why we keep losing all the good high paying computer jobs to this part of the world. It makes me feel like we have failed our kids and these numbers should tell us to try harder and push our kids greater for it is their future that we prepare them for.

Also Technology is leading the way in today's fast paced information world. More people use and prosper from the internet in ways like never before. This ranges from using the internet to find mates, jobs, and use the social hangouts like my space and twitter. This kind of technology hardly existed twenty years ago and now we put our future on it and other countries have put their futures on this new technology also. Information in this new era is also used and stored in vast amounts on the internet and can be recalled in a nanosecond. In the end this will not go away and people will only get more dependent on this new technology, so we as educators must embrace this new technology and use it to give our students the best education that they deserve.

Video 2

This video paints a bleak picture of what is really going on in our schools in the United States today. Everything around us is going ahead with progression, but it seems like schools are always lagging behind in the technology field and this is not right. Our schools are not cemented in the concrete of time, so why do they not have what they need? This is very bad for our children looking to learn the new technological ways of today's world, but if the states of this nation do not increase money the schools will never be able to bring kids up with today's level of learning that they need.

I remember when growing up how at W.C. Griggs Elementary the parents and school administrators would hold bake sales and candy drives to raise money for computers, but it took around six months to get just a few computers. Looking back this was unacceptable and twenty computers were no where near enough to teach us kids of around five hundred. It is nice to know that twenty years later it is still the same game being played and the only people who suffer are our children. The lawmakers need to come off of the money in Montgomery and give our kids what they need to succeed in life and that is an education with today’s technology not yesterdays dirt. We as teachers and as parents have a right and responsibility to try and get some of these new technologies for our children.

Video Three

I Thought this was a very insightful video and Sir Ken Robinson hit this problem with child creativity right on the head. Many people would be hesitant to blame the world school systems for this fundamental lack of creativity, but he was right on the mark and that creativity was just as important as being literate. With the world mainly focused on the degree aspect of education we as a people have lost almost all ability to be creative and I agree with him on this video. We do not need just academic teachers, but we need people who are not afraid to be wrong and that will try to learn from their mistakes. Many of the things we take for granted came from people who were creative and pushed through the people who stood in the way. Two people come to mind Benjamin Franklin and Alexander Gram Bell. These two men explored their creativity and we got the use of a telephone and the knowledge of what came to be known as electricity.

This video goes to show me that we need to help our children with all the aspects of their education and not just filling their heads with information that more than likely will be forgotten in just a few years. School can be made fun and entertaining for our children to help our children foster these new creativity abilities. However we must embrace this new philosophy and apply it to the kids who want to do this, but in the same sense there is not much demand in the work force for creativity. This means that we as teachers must take on the role of helping these kids even if their parents and society doesn't support them. In the long run the children will remember what we have done for them when no one else would give them the opportunity to do and be creative.

video four

This is a good example of what needs to be going on in our classrooms today not just at the EDM310 class at South Alabama. This teacher is awesome giving the power of technology, self-reliance, and partnership to her students in a rural Georgia school. I liked the fact that if she said something the kids didn't understand than they knew enough to Google the word and find out what it meant. Also Teachers should let students have some control in the class, but not to much. The teacher was also correct in the fact that "when you only have paper and pencil then only certain groups will learn." Most children learn by doing and not by memorizing then regurgitating such as was said by Dr. Strange. One thing that the teacher said that struck me as smart was the fact that she focuses on their talents and strengths and not their weaknesses.

Having this kind of class would be real enjoyable and not a burden, so why do not all schools have some kind of class as this. This is what we need to help our children learn and this also shows that technology can be our friend and not our enemy. The children of today must learn to embrace all technology and each others creative thinking abilities. This would not only improve class time enjoyable experiences, but also learning abilities. I applaud this teacher in her quest, for many a teacher would hesitate to pick up this torch and run with it like she has done