C4T Summery 1

The first review will be on the "Dang! I just missed it." Mr Warlick was stating how important we watch what and how we say things, for people can be mislead to think of something else that was not even the case. A teacher was talking about how one could see mars as plane as day in the sky as one would see the moon, but she hinted only at the use of a 75mm powered telescope. This as a result convinced the people to look up in the night sky to see mars, but low and behold no planet. With just a little more time and attention to what we say things like this could be avoided.

The second review would be on "Technology for 21st century Learning: Part 2." Mr Warlick was saying should we reli on new technology to help us out in our schools? Even though the new technology is great it is not really designed for the school learning environment that we our used to. Most of the new technology doesn't even have programs hardly for the looking up and functionality of a classroom setting. He also believed that today we must communicate with more than words, so this brings in the pictures, sounds, and motion that we get with this new technology.

My comment summeries:

Dang! I just missed it.

We as people can overlook the simplest mistakes, for it is natural the way we talk and perceive things. We must learn to watch our sentences more carefully and if not we could be drawn into incorrect facts and not what we need. This will only slow us up in life especially with all the information on line now a days. We must learn to take our time and to provide correct and timely information for our children and peers.

On Technology for 21st Century Learning: Part 2

We love new technology, but there is still nothing like the old way of teaching even though today we have a greater source of information than we did say even ten years ago. New technologies even though they can do lots of things still fall short of being using in the classroom setting. This is due to the fact that they have very few programs that will allow them to be used to help educate our children. We as teachers must insist that our new technology uses programs that can enrich the lives of not only our children, but of us teachers as well. One day technology will be in the class full time, but till then we must watch and pick out what will be used in the classroom setting.

Thanks Phillip C.