I found the first viewing, A Vision of Students Today, very interesting especially since it seemed to pertain to college. I thought the way the video was shot made it very dramatic especially with music in the background. The students holding up the signs with solemn faces made it seem even more real. It was shocking that 18% of student's professors don't even know his or her name or that 49% didn't even read his or her textbook. Even though I go to a small college campus I could relate to feeling of not having enough time in the day to finish all my work. The statistic that I had 26.5 hours of work in a day was shocking but true.
I agree with the film when it mentioned that technology could help, but I do not think technology should not be used for every aspect of teaching. I thought that The Machine is Us/ing Us Final Version showed the concept of technology in our lives better when it said computer text leaves us with more options. The computer can be a tool for humans, but there is a point where the machine becomes us which I believe should not happen. I don't want technology to conform us to a mold such as the text does when people all write differently normally. Yet times are changing as Pay Attention stated and in order to reach this generation teachers must use technology to engage them as learners. Children are growing with the ever changing computers and love to us these new machines. Educators could use student's love for technology to make them love their schoolwork that would use the new systems.
And the Walls cam Tumbling Down offered an approach to how technology is changing teaching with blackboard and google. This allows people to share ideas and that is what learning is all about. Students can create a blog that shares their ideas and then others can respond to the blogs. This makes learning active and gets the students thinking so they develop life skills. Do Something Disruptive showed how there are two ways to use technology which is Type I and Type II. Type I will just replace what teachers already do, but Type II will introduce new ideas in the classroom to activate the students. I thought Type II was important to keep learning fun and new because a big problem is students getting bored from year to year with the same types of assignments. I think all the readings and viewings showed how technology can be used positively in a classroom. I don't think the point is to completely change the teaching methods of the past but to develop them as our society develops.
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Stephanie, this is a nice first post, I really like how you blended your thinking together. I agree with you that technology should enhance not replace other forms of teaching.
I totally agree with you on the first video. The statistics were very much a shock, especially since we really don't see much of that here, the professors not knowing our names. The amount of work that we are expected to do in 24 hours, seems a bit ridiculous since it often exceeds the 24 hour natural limit. It's not like we can go an entire semester without sleeping! I noticed you didn't comment on the video that suggested we, as future teachers, should integrate the use of cell phones in the classroom. That was a piece of technology that I did not agree needed to be in the classroom. I'm interested to see what you thought about that!
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