As I was watching this video I was writing little quotes down for my own entertainment; thoughts that were running through my head. When the video was over I walked away for a while and did some things around the house. When I came back I had a feeling I would not be able to remember the exact context from which the words and phrases were derived. This was actually the plan. So I am going to enter the quotes and what they mean to me now…now:
Literacy is relevant to the time you live in.
Literacy was a very different thing to me when I was in grade school than it is to a grade school kid now. I remember watching the video and thinking, “Check out the computers these kids have! They are a far cry from the little mac cube-looking thing we had in my classroom in 6th grade ad we all had to share it!” Kids today do not just need to know and understand everything tech to get buy, they need to know it to survive. I am going to very loosely paraphrase Dewey the way someone in the video did in that we can not educate the way we did yesterday if our students are going to be prepared for tomorrow. That being said…
I need to become more literate…reluctantly
I am not sure why I added the last word, as the first six are 100% correct. As a college professor, I always need to strive to be ahead of the curve!
Power and importance of play
Play is what I do for a living. Play is what I teach for a living. It only makes sense that I teach using play.
Play is learning
See above
“Addiction” is relative to the utilization of the activity we are addicted to
Earlier in this semester when I was looking for something else I found a YouTube video of a story about internet addiction. I guess what I was thinking is addiction is only bad if it negatively affects you or the people around you. The argument being made in the video is addiction to computers and technology cannot bad if we are learning or benefitting from it in some way.
Are cell phones the teacher’s friend or foe
I remember thinking this because I have a rule in my class regarding cell phones; if I see them or hear them the person who owns the phone gets a cut for the day unless the person of question gets permission ahead of time (for emergencies)…yes it has gotten that bad. After watching the video I understand they have their place and to be perfectly honest they have come in handy for my sophomore practicum!
“Technology needs to be ubiquitous, necessary and invisible” Christopher Lehmann
If I got this quote wrong, I apologize to Mr Lehmann, but I liked this quote because it defines technology today; a part of life.
Love Chris Lehmann and I have seen him speak a lot at various conferences. His school is a wonderful example of learning with technology at its finest. I do think there is a lot of technology out there. Some good and some not so great. It is all how you decide to use it and is it meaningful that is what works for you the teacher. While I am thinking of it, you mentioned in my google doc question how you will use blogs for your class. The best piece of advice I can give you is to then add your student blogs to your RSS Google Reader. This is a great organizational tool for yourself as the instructor. You will then have a running record of all posts, they are dated and time stamped and nice and neat. Then when you had a chance to read them over, you can mark as read, and move on. I love the way it works!
ReplyDelete