Blog Assignment # 4

 

Don’t Teach Your Kid’s This Stuff, Please?

                I liked how Mr. Mcleod wrote this blog. It was in a sarcastic manner. At first when I was reading it I was thinking oh my gosh, this man is crazy! But as I continued to the end I saw that he was just being sarcastic. He really knows how to get someone’s attention. I agreed with what he said. Students need technology to succeed in today’s world.  By having more outlets and resources for learning students tend to learn more. They can have hands-on experience learning things. But, I do think that there needs to be some limitations to what students can be allowed to do on the internet, simply because there are some dangers on the internet.  A lot of parent’s are letting their kids have computers and giving them no restrictions and kids are meeting people on the internet and are in danger. Dr. Mcleod is an Associate Professor in Educational Administration program. He is the director of UCEA, this is the only center in the nation solely dedicated to the technology needs of school administrators.

The iSchool Initiative

             Wow! For a high school senior, this video was well done. I was surprised at how good it was. This is a good idea. I think it would be a great thing to help the ecosystem and our carbon footprints. Having this technology to hold in the palm of our hands would be amazing. No more paper, books, and pencils would be a relief. Having information at one click of a button in the ischool apps. I really liked how he showed the apps that the iphone already has was neat,  I personally don’t own an iphone  so I did not know what all it has to offer in the apps.

      Though I thought this video gave a good idea for the future of education, I also had a few disagreements. I worry that if we did have ischool, would there even really be a need for teachers, everything could be done at home by themselves.  The students would lack some social contact. Being in a school environment enables kids to development social skills that will help them for the rest of their lives.  Even though this is an amazing concept, ischool could also have some negative effects.

Lost Generation

                This video was very interesting to me. People are saying that in the future people will be more lazy and uncaring, everything will be worse. The more and more people say these things the more people except as a fact and go along with it. We need to stop excepting this and make changes in our society. We need to be environmentally conscience and stop destroying our Earth. We need to learn how to stay in our relationships with loved ones, stop the increasing divorce rate. I really liked how this video was put together, how the sentences that were so negative could be read bottom up and become positive sentences. I struggle to understand how they though to do that , it was really cool.

Eric Whitaker’s Virtual Choir

                All I can think to say is WOW!! That was one of the coolest things I have ever seen! I was in band in high school and we played some of Eric Whitaker’s pieces. His music was always interesting.  I have never seen anything like this; I think it’s extraordinary that the internet could be used like this. I think this is a great thing to do, all these people from around the world can sing together and make such beautiful music.