In watching Richard Millers' video This Is How We Dream Part 1 and 2 Mr. Miller talks about his beliefs, in how much technology has changed over the years. He talks about how he was able to do a whole research paper without having to step foot in a library. I agree with the fact that he believes that we are living in the greatest times of communication as we know it. We have crossed many stepping stones and have gone above and beyond what scholars could have imaged decades ago. Being able to communicate instantly and globally has taken communication to all sorts of unimaginable heights.
I,like Mr.Miller grew up in a house filled with books but unlike Mr. Miller I never really sought out a career dealing specifically with books. Mr. Miller spoke of two different changes in technology, which were incremental changes and fundamental changes. Incremental changes may include colaboration using technology from the web such as print documents, and or visual images on the web, which lives on through the web even after you take it out from your document, the document is now freely available to everyone who searches for it.
My response to watching these two videos is not only amazement, but also fear. It is amazing how much information you can share with people in different countries, with just the click of a mouse. What is fearful to me is that people would loose the enthusiasm to go out and find things on their own. People would become lazy and not ever try to find information for themselves but instead rely on the internet for answers.
The one thing that I know is that change is inevitable, so I would prefer to join this technological movement rather than to get left behind. I am very much interested in learning all that I can to improve education and teaching in the classroom.
In Carly Pughs' Blog post 12 Carly speaks of how she had gotten behind on some assignments and since she was seemingly bored decided to catch up on her work and even go above and beyond what was asked of her. Carly took it upon herself to think outside of the box and like Mr.Miller she decided to use Incremental changes in technology to create something fundamental. By making a playlist of teacher videos, Carly was able to put all the videos she needed together and create a great look into what kind of teacher she would hope to become, all without having to step foot outside of her house.
After watching the two assigned videos on EDM310 Is Different page, I found that the type of creativity that I would most enjoy doing or enjoy being a part of creating would be to do a video on time management and organization. I would maybe, be in an hoarding type of setting, which would display how unorganized and messy things can get, if we never learned to manage time or organizational skills. Learn to Change,Change to Learn was a very interesting video. It brought up a lot of facts that kids of this technological era are currently in and going through. With this new technology students will be able to learn more while at the same time enjoying the tools that are allowing them to do so. It is foolish to apply standardized testing to make things better, when in fact, society today does not live by this approach. There is no more sensibility in standardized testing. We should be moving away from standardized test which causes students to memorize facts that they will never use outside of the classroom. Instead we should be preparing students for what is beyond the classroom, teach them how to go out and find and use the information that find, in an everyday type of setting. This video was very well put together and I agreed with everyone in the video.
For our Scavenger Hunt, three of the five tools listed were: Community tools, Presentation tools, Mobile tools, related links and video tools. Under Community tools, I found Classroom 2.0 which is a network for teachers to share and collaborate.This sight is perfect for new teachers, and it serves as a support group as well as an informative website to gather useful tips for teaching. The tool that was most likely used for this project was the presentation tool(prezi). The pricing for teachers using Prezi, I think is unbelievable. Teachers are able to do so much, for so little. They have the option to be billed monthly on either package deal for just enjoyment purposes which is priced at $4.92 a month or $59.00 a month, or they could enjoy the Pro package that has wonderful features such as using your own logo, premium support and using prezi on your own desktop for either $13.25 a week or $159 a month. Either package you choose using prezi period, is a great way to add some creativity to your teaching skills in your classroom. My comic that I created looks like this:
The video tool that I would most likely use in the future would be ANIMOTO, because its features are more of my liking. I love making slideshows, and just grouping pictures together in a organizational format. Animoto also is able to include music in the slideshow, which is something I don't yet know how to do, but am willing to learn how to. I believe I would be able to use this tool in my classroom, in that I could have my students draw there own comic books, and make caption bubbles for their comics, and we could put them together using this slideshow, and do voice overs for the students visual story books that they have created.
Polleverywhere.com Is the tool that I used to create this poll which asks the question "Do you believe in love at first sight?"
Ashley,
ReplyDeleteI found your description of Dr. Miller’s video to be insightful! I liked that you were able to relate to Dr. Miller’s post, being generations apart, but still finding common ground. “I,like Mr.Miller [,] grew up in a house filled with books [;] but unlike Mr. Miller [,] I never really sought out a career dealing specifically with books”. (I included the corrections to your small punctuation errors in brackets). This was a good way of connecting with the speaker while also establishing your differences.
I also really liked your statement that “My response to watching these two videos is not only amazement, but also fear...What is fearful to me is that people would loose the enthusiasm to go out and find things on their own.” When I read this, I was reminded of the “Networked Student” video from the previous post. If you feel fearful of what the technology might bring to the future, remember that this is also part of the teacher’s role. Your enthusiasm and leadership could make them less “lazy” and apt to “rely on the internet for answers”. If you set the good example and encourage them, they should follow! Don’t be fearful; it is in your power to change it by being a creative teacher who balances technology and traditional teaching methods! :D
I also appreciate your critique on my post. I wasn’t really behind though; I think when I wrote the post I was working on assignment that wasn’t due for a few days.
Also, great job on your scavenger hunt! Your findings look great!
Ashley, your post was very thoughtful and well written. Like you, I also fear that some technology could help cause a type of laziness, but I hope we can teach students that new technologies are inherently good, and when used correctly, make tasks that once seemed impossible, possible. I only saw one minor error, and that was in the third paragraph where "loose" should be "lose." Great job on your post though!
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