Blog Post #4

Don't teach your kids this stuff
Great article. All the negatives express seemed to be about people, who are not willing to embrace technology. The article implied, that we can think of everything possible, to avoid educating our- selves, with the technology available. Even trying to criminalize it. Moral of the story, you keep doing what you are doing, and you will keep getting the same results. I'm moving forward, not staying put.
Also, i check to see who Scott Mcleod was: Scott McLeod, J.D., Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Educational Administration program at Iowa State University. He also is the Director of the UCEA Center for the Advanced Study of Technology Leadership in Education (CASTLE), the nation’s only academic center dedicated to the technology needs of school administrators, and was a co-creator of the wildly popular video, Did You Know? (Shift Happens). He has received numerous national awards for his technology leadership work, including recognitions from the cable industry, Phi Delta Kappa, and the National School Boards Association. In Spring 2011 he will be a Visiting Canterbury Fellow at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. Dr. McLeod blogs regularly about technology leadership issues at dangerouslyirrelevant.org and occasionally at The Huffington Post.

Teaching in the 21st Century
Had to review the video a couple of times, to get the meaning. The video starts off by insinuating, with all the information out there on the internet, why do we need teachers, or what is the teachers role now. I think this video, and "Don't Teach Your Kids This Stuff", go hand in hand. The moral of this video is that, there is a lot of information out there, for the kids to get into. So the teachers' role has to change. We as teachers, should now show the kids how to used this information, in a positive way. Students need to know, that even though, the internet has a lot of entertaining information on it, as a teacher, we need for them to be engaged. There is a difference, entertainment is just was it says. Engaging, is when a student is challenged. Great piece!!

iSchool Initiative
I knew that a phone like this existed, but i never thought about it, in the say way this young man, in high school presented it. After looking at his illustration, i wonder how many school superintendents, saw this video and, is doing absolutely nothing, to move in that direction. If thats the case, they are "stuck on stupid".
I can see this technology taking hold, in a third world country(where they have limited resources), and someone else taking the lead, in technology, we have a chance to implement today.
Kinda like what Japan did to the US, in the car business. I will send this young man and email, to show my support, because using the technology i viewed, on the iSchool video, was simply amazing.

Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir
I absolutely loved this production. Almost like having a mega podcast. I imagine, the reason everyone had on earphones, was to keep everyone on key. With so many people singing, from so many different places, no way around the earphones. This was a very creative video. Everything done by video, and brought to you on video. Even the conductor. Technology, how neat!!

The Lost Generation
I thought this video was done very smartly. In the beginning, in seemed as if the lady in the video, was going to go on, and on, about the ills, of todays society. If fact, she did. The difference was, she turned everything mentioned around, by reversing. After she finished her last negative sentence, she went back over every negative she listed, with a positive solution, if we embrace technology. Kudos' to Johnathan Reed for a brilliant production.