Assignment 4: Blog Post 3

Don't Teach Your Kids This Stuff. Please?

Teachers, parents, and administrators definitely hold students back from their technological possibilities. I remember when I first started using the internet and how quickly I caught onto the concept. Luckily I knew what websites were appropriate and safe, but my parents thought few were appropriate, much less safe.

Parents and teachers should strive to teach students beneficial ways to utilize the web. Students are less likely to wander onto inappropriate websites if they are taught how to navigate and understand technology. The poem presented by Scott McLeod,who is co-creator of Did You Know 3.0, is very straight forward with the topic of technology and students. Parents and school officials should read this poem and realize that children held back from technological advancement now will continue to stay behind.

The iSchool Initiative

The school applications available through the iTouch are very useful and a great idea to incorporate in the classroom. iSchool, classics, and iHomework are truly amazing applications that could, not only help our student's technological learning, but help the world's attempt of going green. Some of the applications probably offer more information than school books, and would be accessed more easily compared to books.
It would be interesting if Apple conducted a research by distributing iTouch technology to a specific school. Students would perform their schoolwork using this technology. Grades and progress would then be compared to other schools within the same school district without the use of technology.

The Lost Generation

As the words flow, it is depressing, yet very true of how closely they resemble today's thoughts and actions. Putting work and money first, higher divorce rates, and environmental destruction is considered to be the general thought process of today's society. When the video unexpectedly reverses, hope is truly considered. It is evident that individual's are trying to turn around the mistakes we have been making on the environment. Families and happiness should be one of the most important areas focused on in daily life.

Though the words are the same, when reversed the meaning is entirely different. It shows that if we do reverse the way we act and think, there is hope that everything will turn around. An extremely interesting way of presenting words that have two different concepts.

Eric Whitaker's Virtual Choir

Some might argue that 185 people that have never met or practiced would not be able to perform "Lux Aurumque". Well the internet has not only accomplished this, but accomplished it very well. The combination of music and technology is amazing. This video is proof to anyone anti-technology that remarkable things can be accomplished via internet.