Blog Assignment 3/28/10

Morgan Bayda/Dan Brown
This form of education rebellion could become more main stream if we as future educators do not present our lessons in a manner that jumps off the page. Not only is presentation the key, the information itself needs to be modified to incorporate the knowledge of technology and the new ways of learning the students will need for their future. I believe this trend in technology will spark charter schools in our near future.

Dan Brown states that education, knowledge, and the liberated highway of information available today is free to all. This is far from the truth. Who pays for this child's computer and accessories that allows him to create his broadcast, who pays for his internet connection, who supplies him with an environment where he can video? Most likely his means comes from his parents or guardian. Not all parents have the means to make this available to their children. Yes it is liberating yet not "free".



Comments 4 Kids
I commented on Mrs. McGeady's blog whom teachs at Leopold Primary School. She posted a video of an assembly where a group of girls performed a dance and two boys demonstrated a simple science project. The science project was to determine if things would sink or float. The audience voted. What fun.
This was not an assigned post but one of the post was about earth day. She had a countdown clicker on the site counting down to earth day where her classroom will go paperless.

Comment 4 Teachers
No wonder this guy, Welsey Fryer is part of Dr. Strange's PLN. He is all about apple products and the iPad. He has photos of his adventure to the store to get his iPad, too cute.

Comments for Kids
St. Pius X Room #6 was to create a movie utilizing the skills they learned throughout the year, much like us in EDM 310. A group of 6 students presented in movie form "Pop Idol". They presented an act they created and the teachers were the judges. This group of 10, 11, and 12 year olds have movie skills well underway.

Blog Assignment 3/7/2010

Video Cast - EDM 310 for Dummies





Randy Pausch's Last Lecture
Randy Pausch, what a motivator and inspiration. For someone to be terminally ill he was full of life. He spoke on dreaming, helping others, and life experiences.

He state experiences are learned form the brick walls we run into while conquering our dreams. Hurdling over these walls to conquer our dreams separate us into the determined. He was definitely a dreamer and conqueror of his dreams, how impressive. He also stated we should help others and the rewards are endless. Helping others to reach their dreams is a necessity to reaching our own with fulfillment. One of my dreams is to help under privileged children beware of what is out there to dream about and give them direction to help them conquer their dream. I want to help these students to be aware that anyone can go to college, NO MATTER WHAT, you have got to be willing to hurdle over those brick walls and keep going.

After viewing this you can only walk away with a can do attitude.



Comments 4 Kids
This week I was assigned Gerardo in Mrs Shetler's class. It looks like she uses her blog as a source to motivate her students to write and learn language arts. This is one of the ways where I see blogging is useful and how I will incorporate blogging in my classroom.

Comments 4 Teachers
It was nice to hear someone in cyber world concerned about our students protection and reputation from the internet. Thank you.