Blog Assignment 2

Did you know?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL9Wu2kWwSY
This video made me stop and think how different technology is today, and how far that we have come. Just 2 years ago technology was very different and we did not have some of the connections that we have today. This video shows many different adaptions that we have made to technology. Some of these adaptions include how many people search google a month, to how many people have a myspace and facebook account.
Without technology being a part of today's society, many things that people try to accomplish would not be possible. Some companies now only look at people interviewing for a job through the internet. In the next 5 years it is hard to imagine where we would be without the advances made in technology every day.

Mr. Winkle Wakes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm1sCsl2MQY
This video is about Rip Van Winkle waking up after 100 years of being asleep and waking up to a different world. He woke up to find that there was technology and people that were working on computers evolving technology. Mr. Winkle went to a school where children were listening to their teacher and taking notes. He then noticed that there was a computer that was dusty sitting in the back of the room.
Mr. Winkle thought that this was a nice way of seeing that some things did not change. This was comforting to Mr. Winkle because he thought that even though he had been asleep for 100 years some ways of life had not changed.

Sir Ken Robinson The importance of creativity
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html
This video is about making sure that creativity can be a big change in the way that teachers are educating the children of America. Creativity is very important in helping children to learn because of the different learning styles of every child. Ken Robinson thinks that creativity should be a part of the learning way of schools.
Creativity can open up a child's mind to help them to learn new things and how a child will be able to understand what the teacher is trying to teach them.

Cecelia Gault interviews Sir Ken Robinson
http://blogs.scholastic.com/kidspress/2010/09/breaking-creative-myths.html
These videos are about why schools in other countries are doing better in education and why they have a lower drop out rate than the United States. What some of the conclusions came to were that people in other countries have a better way of engaging the attention of their students and by being passionate about what they do.
For a teacher trying to teach, being passionate about what you are trying to portray to your students can be one of the many ways to keep a students attention and by doing that it will allow students to learn in a better way.

Vicki Davis: Harness your students digital smarts
http://www.edutopia.org/digital-generation-teachers-vicki-davis-video
This video shows how Mrs. Davis is helping her students to learn by letting them use many different types of technology in her classroom and she has seen that this is helping them to learn.She is teaching them how to learn by learning about technology and software.
In todays society she thinks that learning about the many different types of technology will help the students to be better prepared for the society when they get out of school.