PBL #15

Smartboard Project #12 Part A

Blog # 10

What did you learn from Sir Ken Robinson? The YouTube video that I watched was called Sir Ken Robinson: Bringing on the learning Revolution! Here is the video on YouTubeYouTube Video. In this video I learned several things, one of the things is talent is important to each and every person. All people have talent some enjoy their talent others not so much. But sadly, some people think that they don't have any talents. Personally, I have a talent of being around young children and I enjoy it quite well which is why I would like to become a teacher.

There is a quote that Sir Ken Robinson said in the video that Abraham Lincoln said on December of 1862: " I ought to explain that I have no idea what was happening at that time we don't teach American History in Britain we Suppress it." The 21st Century Education system is being taken for granted, the main thing that most people now are focused on is getting into college and they have a long ways to go before college. If a child wanted to get into a certain kindergarten class you would have to have an interview in order to even think about getting in. In my personal experience only the private schools require interviews with the parents as well as the up coming student. Another thing that I learned in this video talent equals passion; if you have a talent that you are interested in you have to have passion towards that talent or any talent for that matter. Another thing the video mentioned is time for talent if you don't enjoy the talent time will go so slow, if on the other hand enjoy the talent time will fly by. Another quote that Abraham Lincoln said "The dog-mere of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present the occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion; as our case is new so we must think a new and act a new we must dis-enthrall ourselves and then we should save our country."

I think the quote means don't focus on the past, focus on the present and that the journey to the present is going to be difficult at times but that is life and you must deal with one day at a time not all at once also we should be open-mind about certain things. Here is a video that I found on YouTube by Sir Ken Robinson about the passion of talents

Blog # 9 (Rewritten to address the concerns raised by comments I received on my original post)

What can we learn from Mrs. Cassidy?

I watched 4 different videos on YouTube that Dr. Strange interviewed a First Grade teacher Kathy Cassidy. I learned a lot from Kathy, one thing that Kathy talked about was technology and how it was taking over the education system and that not a lot of classrooms use pen and paper anymore. I think that the kids who are in school now know more about the technology world then the teachers would. As for teachers now their teaching methods and materials are changing at a rapid pace. Kids during the 21st century have more understanding and more knowledgeable with the new technology. Blogging is one of the most educational things for kids to write on and type their what they want too. The kids like to write on their blogs and they get really excited when someone responds to the blogs. As one of the students in the first video says "NEVER EVER say bad stuff, you might hurt someones feelings." When young kids have a blog of their own you only want to put your first name NEVER your last name!! In my own opinion I think putting your first and your last there is a better chance that someone could find more information about you. But with only your first name provided its a wider variety of getting more information on that person. Also in the video it talks about the kids looking things up on the internet.

Another popular thing in the education system is Wiki's, I think a Wiki is a kid-friendly internet system where kids can look up information that is appropriate for their learning and education. Also their are many different things to use the Wiki on for example rituals, alphabet and even traditions in different families. My personal favorite technology based learning is Skype which in the classroom can be used for many different things. I think that skype can be used for communicating with people from other places like classrooms, overseas or from room to room. I also learned about how to use technology in schools education systems. In the video, Dr. Strange interviews Kathy Cassidy on the use of technology in her room and what programs she uses and how long she has used them. Facebook is also a popular online communicative program that the 21st century kids have to communicate with friends and family. Overall I thought that the interview between Dr. Strange and Kathy Cassidy was very helpful with her perspective on how she uses technology in her classroom and also how her students use it.

PBL #2

Blog # 8

21st century learning and communicating tools

There are a lot of different communicating and learning tools these days. There is YouTube, Facebook, Skype and there are even ways to communicate by mobile for IPhone owners there is even face-timing other IPhone owners.I think that technology has taken over students education and especially if everywhere kids go and there is nothing but technology around them everyone is on there cellphone (mostly Iphones) looking on Facebook or checking email. That's all the kids in the 21st century know of technology no pen, pencil or paper just technology. As for learning tools I would recommend Discovery Education, It has activities and Programs for all subjects (Math, Science, Social Studies, Language Arts and also World Languages).

I would teach 4th grade students how to use skype skype because I think that at that age they are the ones that will make use of it the most with their friends. Here is a website with written instructions on how to use skype I reviewed how to use skype and skype is basically a visual chat room that you can talk to people all over the world through video. The cool thing I really like about skype is you can video chat more than one person at a time. Skype is also a good way to communicate with other classmates while being in a different place your house for example. I would use skype so that during the day for a few hours the students could skype me with questions that they had. When I become a teacher I really would like to use the "flipping a classroom" method. The main reason is the students can work at their own pace and as well as not fall behind on their classwork. Out of the video's that were on the blog instructions this video was my favorite one. It was the most descriptive of what "flipping a classroom" is and how it helps the students learn and understand better. I learned in this video that 90% of the kids in Katie's class were spending time delivering the message rather than learning in class. 10% of the kids in the class spent on the application which depends on the students application outside of class as well. So the big thing about a normal class is kids didn't have enough time to do there work.

Video Conversation Project

Denise Krebs C4T

On Denise Krebs blog, she talked about how she moved to Bahrain in the Middle East. She said that with her first week living there she has to get her sleeping adjusted and also the smaller streets and parking lots. When she moved she became a English kindergarten teacher with 50 students in her class teaching 1.5-2.5 hours per day. I commented on her blog about me living in England and how it was a huge transition for me with the time change especially. I liked reading her blog some of the things that she wrote I related to the experience and I look forward to reading her next blog. This is the second time I read Denise Krebs blog, It talked about how she was moving and she was getting rid of some of her daughters school papers and awards. The only thing that she kept was things that were authentic and creative like the Pandora box that her daughter made. But what surprised me is that she even threw away the awards that her daughter received.The main thing that made me realize is no matter how many papers you get in the past that say good job or 100% it doesn't determine who you are as a person.

PBL Lesson Plan

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Project #3 Presentation