Blog Post #2

Did You Know? 3.0 A John Strange 2012 Version

I watched Dr. Strange's video on Did You Know? 3.0 and I think it had a lot of interesting facts that I would never thought about. Throughout his video, I think he trying to show his students how fast technology is changing and how fast it will continue to change. I also think he was trying to show us how dependent we are on technology and the internet. Like how he said, " 1,393,519 searches are made on Google every minute". It makes you think where did people get their information or answers before the internet. I know it wasn't as convenient as just typing it in. It also shows how rapidly society is changing with the technology for example, "Two years ago 93% of all 8-18 years old in the United States had computers in their homes".

Dr. Strange's video was based off Karl Fisch and Scott McLeod video Did You Know 3.0 and I think in that video it had more about how rapidly everything is increasing like the amount of words, amount of births, and more. In Dr. Strange's video, I wish he would of just stuck with the technology and wouldn't have added anything about India and that "25% of the population of India with the highest IQs, outnumbers the entire population of the United States". I understand why he put it in there because this class is suppose to be teaching the students of the United States but I do not think that it flows well with all the other facts that he has in the video.



Mr. Winkle Wakes

Mr. Winkle Wakes by Mathew Needleman is about an old man that wakes after 100 years to find everything around him change except for one thing. In the business world, he found big tall buildings, different sounds,and different machines that did several different things like print pictures and documents, one that opened the lines of communication.In the hospitals, he found lasers, xrays, and machines that kept people alive. But in the schools it had not changed there where still rows of students taking notes from the teacher at the board with no outside world coming in. Mr. Winkle did find one of those machines, a computer, but it had dust on it and it hadn't been use. Mr. Winkle liked being at school because nothing had changed for 100 years.

Like this video, I think that the business world and hospitals have received more technology changes than in the schools. I think that this is a shame because all the people in those careers start off in school and they should be taught at an early age how to use technology. It will be easier for them in the future.



Sir Ken Robinson: The Importance of Creativity

Sir Ken Robinson's video on The Importance of Creativity he talks about the range of creativity humans have and how the education system is trying to remove it. He says that no one knows the future but teachers are suppose to teach students for it, but teachers can not teach creativity that is something students are born with. Sir Ken Robinson puts creativity at the same importance as literacy. And if students are not afraid to be wrong the will express their creativity, but education is scaring students out of being creative because people are scared to be wrong, and students won't take chances.

Public Education was created for industrial means in the early 1700s. But now it is mistaken because of the change in technology and the fundamental learning should be more open to creativity with the arts. Ken Robinson says that their is a need to have a new education system with reconstructed fundamental education. And that we need to have hope in our children.

I think that some of what he was saying was true but not all. I think that student should still be able to use their creativity but still need to focus on the certain fundamental skills such as math, language, and then humanities. I think this way because especially in the United States, we run off the middle class. The middle class still needs the fundamental math, language, and humanity skills that are taught in school because the middle class still works in industries. Do not get me wrong I love creativity and I think students should be able to move around and use their brain however they would like but their fundamental skills are more important. The middle class still put their children in dance, music, and art where they can use their creativity.



A Day Made of Glass 2

In Corning's videos A Day Made of Glass 2 and A Day Made of Glass 2 Unpacked it explains what Corning has planned for the future in technology. A tablet is one of the most important things in everyday life. Humans can use it for learning, in the jobs, and more. With this technology, small changes can help the envirnoment. A school can become an energy provider and not just a user. Also with this technology Corning is breaking down barriers in hospitals, schools, and in the home.

I think this technology would change the way humans see the world. They would learn differently and interact differently. This would be awesome in my future classroom way better than a smartboard.