1/17 Homework Week 1

Mr. Winkle Wakes

This is a very interesting video in how demonstrates the changes that have occurred over the last 100 years. Matthew Needleman gives such perfect examples with business and health. Over the past one hundred years technology has expanded our business horizons to places we never thought possible. With the whole cisco networking system which allows us to speak with clients, share holders, and even investors that are located half-way around the world. The beauty of that program is one can see the person they are talking to even though they are miles away. Also the technology that hospitals have required nowadays can look at peoples brains without doing surgery, and they also have machines that help one breathe if one can not do it on their own.

I also agree with Mr. Needleman in the fact that not much has changed in our school system over the last century. Teachers still tend to teach at the front of the classroom and ramble on and on without giving any videos or pictures to help the students understand what is going on around the area of the subject they are talking about. Don't get me wrong there are some teachers that have made the move and it tends to be working well.

Did you know 3.0

Wow that was just a simply amazing video showing me facts that I never thought were even imaginable. Far as there are more english speaking people in China is remarkable it's beyond belief. Or also how about 25% of India's population with high IQ's is far beyond our population in the United States. What shocked me the most was how the top 10 jobs of 2010 in the U.S. didn't exist in 2004, that is so crazy how that works! I would have never thought that there was over 200 million people on myspace which could make up the fifth largest country. You know who would have ever thought that since 1992 text messaging would now exceed the population of the entire world.

There was somethings that I wasn't as shocked about as far as the working field is concerned. I knew that a lot of people do not stay with one job very long, just because they are always looking for new venues. Also, I have heard about many people meeting online, using chemistry or e-harmony websites.

Overall, this video is just so absolutely amazing! It has shown me how much technology has expanded over a short span of years and how it continues to get better as the years pass.

Sir Ken Robinson: The Importance of Creativity

Sir Ken has a very interesting way of looking at things. He gave great stories through out his speech about how we should take a different look into the way we go about teaching and how we look at our students. He talked about just how young children think and how their minds are so open, like the little girl that drew God. He also pointed out that we need to spend time with them, in what they do, helping them to understand anything and everything. The thing I liked the most was how we should look at our students, for example Gillian, her teacher told her mom to come in, so that they could talk about her "illness". But, what he was doing, was pointing out to the mother that her child needed to be in a dance school. So, the mother listened to the teacher and Gillian made her mark down the road with the choreography of Cats.

The video overall was tremendous on how it makes one think outside the box when comes to dealing with the future leaders of tomorrow. On how we need to encourage them, not shut them down and force math and language down their throats all of their life. Sometimes we are going to have to step out of our comfort zone and tend to the kids, helping them figure out what they could possibly do in the future.

Vicki Davis: Harness Your Students' Digital Smarts

Vicki Davis has a great idea on how she teaches her students to work on computers. She teaches them by doing interaction with them and allowing other students on different days to teach the class. This in-turn helps the student leading the class to understand more of what he is doing, so that he may present what he has learned in front of the class. She is amazing on how she teaches and does all these other things around the globe, connecting students to one another from other countries.

The work that she has done with these kids and what she is going to do with these kids goes beyond the "typical teacher". She has introduced them to things that I myself am now learning for the first time. So, all she is doing is preparing these kids for a better life, by making them computer smart and not forcing them to guess at what they are doing many years down the road.