I have watched this video about seven times and I still am not sure what I think. Did I know? No I didn’t know. What does it all mean? I am not too sure about that either. It is quite an overwhelming amount of information and hard to digest. After watching the other four videos, I do understand the importance of technology. But after watching this video, I am not sure all this technology is a good thing.
For example, we are inventing technology to solve problems that don’t even exist yet. Just what we need more problems. My guess is we probably created the problems while we were looking for the solutions. Today’s students will have 10 to 14 jobs by the time they are 38. I was always told switching jobs often did not look good on a resume. We will soon have computers that exceed the human brain, interesting but whose brain.
I do know one thing for sure, without technology I wouldn’t know all this information. And they say knowledge is power.
Mr Winkle Wakes
I have to agree with Mr. Winkle on one thing, change is scary. If Mr. Winkle had been asleep for only 10 years he still would have awoke to significant change in the world. Nothing ever stays the same. However, I think the Mr. Winkle video was trying to make another point. No change at all is even scarier.
When Mr. Winkle went into the school, everything seems the same. It was comfortable to him. But if students of today are going to be successful tomorrow, then schools need to change. They need to be up with the technology that businesses and hospitals are using today. Schools need to start exposing children to the technology of the future. Otherwise, when these students get out of school and see all the unfamiliar technology that is used around them, it will be like they just awoke from a 100 year nap.
Sir Ken Robinson: Schools Kill Creativity
I love this video. It reminds me so much of my own son. I have two children, a daughter who is very book smart and a son who is very street smart. My daughter loved school, did well in it and is now in college. My son, on the other hand, hated school. He struggled from the very beginning. Yet, he is not any less intelligent or successful than my daughter. He just learns differently.
My son is a visual learner. You couldn’t just read to him about history and expect him to remember it. However, if you took him to a museum about history and showed it to him, he would soak up the information like a sponge. If he could see it or touch it, he could understand it. Sir Ken Robinson is right. There are multiple types of intelligence. Schools need to find a way to teach to everybody. I think creativity definitely plays a huge part in achieving this goal.
Link to Laura Scott's Blog Post
Scholastic Link
This was a great video. Sir Ken Robinson again expressed how important creativity is in an education. He also stressed exactly how imperative it is to have technology in the classroom. This point was proven by the interview between himself and student reporter, Cecelia Gault. Cecelia has obviously been exposed to quite a bit of technology. She was able to conduct a great interview and I believe her knowledge of technology had something to do with that.
I think to be able to provide the same kind of education to future Cecelia Gaults, I am going to have to be very creative and open minded. Thinking outside of the box is a necessity. Children today are very smart. They are also very different in the ways that they think and learn. It is impossible to teach to them in all the same way. I believe understanding and being able to utilize different types of technology is an important tool to have when trying to reach all the students.
Vicki Davis
Wow, that was impressive. Vicki Davis does a wonderful job at reaching all of her students. She realizes that for all her students to be successful, she is going to have to use more than pen and paper to reach them. She focuses in on THEIR interests and goes from there. She is definitely very creative in her teaching style.
The part of the video that impacted me the most was when Vicki Davis admitted that she did not know everything. In addition, she did not have to know everything in order to be able to teach it. She was willing to let her students explore and learn on their own. Then she was willing to let them teach her. I think her showing that to her students is very important.
