Blog Post 2

"Did You Know" 3.0 by Karl Fisch

     This video is remarkable.  I enjoyed it; reading all of the statistics and future predictions about technology in America really made me look forward to my technological future even more!  The video is trying to show the viewer that times are changing.  Not only are they changing, they are changing RAPIDLY!  We all are trying just to keep up.
     An interesting statisitc that the Mr. Fisch uses is the statisitc that says that students trying to earn a 4 year technical degree will learn things in their first year that will change by their thired year.  We are privleged to be Americans.  Other countries have technology, also, though.  I enjoyed the video; I added it to my favorites on my computer!  It really made me excited about what's to come!

""Mr. Winkle Wakes" by Mathew Needleman


    Robinson      This video, even though it was long, was very educational and interesting.  Ken Robinson really has a heart for education and thinks that our schools in America squash children's creativity.  He talks about how people are scared to be wrong, and because of that, we are teaching our children in America to be petrified of being wrong.  He thinks that the purpose of educating minds is to eventually produce University Professors.  He isn't discrediting them, he just thinks that all teachers of edcuation are important.
     The video states that students don't do things that the like, such as music and art, because they think that they will never get a job out of it.  The things that children and students are good at is what they should do in their career.  If we aren't producing artists and musicians, we are losing our creativity.  He says that education is diverse abd dynamic; and I think he's right!






 "Harness Your Students' Digital Smarts" by Vicki Davis

    

This video is talking about a teacher who is teaching her students about technology.  The difference in her and every other teacher I know is that she undertands that she doesn't HAVE to know everything about everything before she can teach it. She understands that it's possible to learn together with your students while teaching!
     The students in the video were learning how to do a certain technological activity and then they were teaching their fellow classmates (and teacher) what they just learned.  This video just shows how far technology has come and where it's going in the future.  I wish that I had a class like the one in the video when I was in grade school.  There was a 14 year old girl in the video who was already blogging.  I didn't start blogging until exactly one week ago, today!

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Krysten Malone: Get to know me!

Hello, all! I'm a 20 year old junior here at South Alabama.  I attended MGCCC for my first 2 years, and I'm very excited about going to a University! I love life! I try to live it to the fullest without making bad decisions or making a full of myself.  I love my family and my boyfriend very much.  I've been dating a wonderful person for almost 5 years- hopefully he'll pop the question soon! (Don't worry, you'll hear about it when he does).
I've been working in child care for almost 4 years now; it's a very rewarding job.  I know that I am called to be a teacher because of the passion I feel for young lives.  I strive to make myself the best I can be.  I'm friendly, outgoing, I LOVE people!