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A forum for students to share their initial field observations, comments on readings, and suggestions and recommendations from research on the web and elsewhere.
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I just finished watching this YouTube video, it is really amazing that when we start teaching that we could be teaching our students information that they already know or that it could be out of date already. We will have to learn new things everyday and every year it will be something different that we will have to do and change for every new group of students that we get each year. It is just something to think about.
I keep losing my blog comments in cyberspace. This is the third try. I am a blog neophyte.
It was nice to meet everyone. I look forward to this class.
The You Tube video is attention-grabbing, and it is reality. We’ll have to ride the tidal changes and keep learning to stay afloat. The amount of changes and the speed at which they are occurring do not surprise me. It wasn’t that long ago--in my big picture--that I was introduced to the microwave oven, 8-track tapes, and Walkman. Some technologies come and go, and some stick around and evolve to our supposed needs. In my early days, my parents taught me how to use the new inventions. Today, my 7th grader is my teacher. Evolution. Keep studying, and ultimately, keep swimming!
The You Tube video really made me think about how our world has changed in recent years, due to the many advances in communication, technology, and the quality of education. It's amazing to think how dramatically our lives will continue to be affected in upcoming years because of the many rapid changes that will occur. The video made me realize that when we become elementary school teachers there will eventually come a time when we will have to learn new things and reeducate ourselves on certain topics in order to keep up with what is being taught in the classroom. In the future, it seems that the job of a teacher will become increasingly difficult because each year teachers will have to increase their knowledge and better prepare themselves for the next set of students they teach. Also, with so many advances in technology, it's no wonder that the resources used to teach students have become much more computer-based than ever before and will undoubtedly change and develop even further by the time we begin teaching.
This youtube video was really interesting. To think how people and technology is changing everyday is so crazy. It's cool to know that we will always be learning new information and we can use this to help teach the children in our class.
I was pretty shocked at what I just saw in this video. Although I already knew that these issues existed, I didn't realize just how big they were. Technology is changing the way we live and we have gotten to be so dependant on it, that I would be afraid to have to live without it. As future teachers, we really have to begin to understand that even little ones are now in the tech-world and that they will learn better if we use technology to present the material to them.
The statistics on how much Honors students China and India have are astounding. I guess it shouldn't have been so much a surprise for me since I had somewhat of a first hand experience with the differences in the Education system between the United States and Asian countries. Granted it wasn't China or India but in the Philippines there were no 6th and 7th grade. When I came here when I was 14 I was supposed to be a Junior in High School but they wanted me to enroll as a Freshman . They finally accepted me as a Sophomore but I found that the next 3 years in High School the Math and Sciences were repeats of what I had already learned by the "8th grade". I guess we should maybe spend some of our educational research on China and India's school system.
As for the amazing rate of constant change and brand new things we are going to be continually exposed to...I help run an Adult School and a lot of older people sign up for "Introduction to the PC" and I am beginning to realize that I sort of fall into the category of having younger people knowing more... my 5th grader actually taught me the basics of how to do a powerpoint presentation.
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