Blog Post #8

Richard Miller: This is how we dream

Richard Miller gives a great lecture about how things are changing in technology and how the school system needs to get on board. He talks about how he loved books and inspired to write one. He finally did and now it is out of print and you can buy it on ebay for like .57 cents. He talks about how technology has changed from students using books to now finding virtually everything on the web. Miller says that most newspapers and books are also now available in web pages to better suit people's needs. It also now has links to photos and audio is included.

Miller says that the education system isn't prepared for this because they don't have Inspiring teachers or spaces. He said until all teachers get on board, nothing will change and therefore students will be behind. Am I prepared to write with multimedia? Before taking EDM I would have said no but from what I have learned in this class and from the web, I think I will be prepared for this change that will be taking place. This is something that will need to take place and that means that teachers will need to get out of their comfort zone and learn about the programs the students will be using. How can we teach something if we don't know anything about it?

Will my students be able to do this? I honestly think they will. As an elementary teacher I will be establishing this in them at an early age. The good thing about this is I will be able to help them and this will almost be all they know. If we can get kids using multimedia at an early age then it will not be as difficult for them when they are made to use it in higher grades. Besides, kids today are so use to technology that this will be another part of their life that they will be incorporating it into. This is where education is going to and I am excited to be a part of it!

Chipper

Chipper was a video about a girl who is in EDM 310 and doesn't do her work. She procrastinates so much that she ends up making bad grades in Dr. Strange's class and decides to leave the university because of him. She then opens up her own  flight school where students can make their own schedules and come whenever they feel like they should come. It ended up being shut down because there was no quality education and people can't fly without actually practicing first. After this she gets an online degree and Dr. Strange helps her get a job with a school. She then gets fired because she never went to class. Afterwards, she got a job as a waitress thinking it would be easy and could go to work whenever she wanted to but she also got fired from there. Chipper then decided to become a nanny because she thought it would be easy and she could get paid for just staying on Facebook but the parents didn't offer her the job. She then decided to become a garbageman and afterwards had a "cleansing" of her mind. She went back to school to get her Master's and decided to really focus in school and not to procrastinate.

EDM310 For Dummies
This was a video about two girls that at the beginning are very overwhelmed with the work in EDM. Then they have a book pop on the screen that is called EDM310 for Dummies. It is a book about all the websites and projects that you will use in EDM310. It has tutorials and a step by step guide on how to survive EDM. This book ended up helping these two girls enjoy the class and get a lot out of it.

In these two videos I learned a lot about EDM and what not to do. I know not to procrastinate or you will not get the assignments done on time. I also know that with a little help this class can be enjoyable and not that difficult.  I would like to create a video on the process of using the flip cameras and how to edit it on imovie. I know it isn't the difficult but it took me awhile to figure out how to take things out of video without messing it all up. I'm still not really sure. This would be very beneficial!

Learn to Change, Change to Learn

This was a video from distinguished educators on how the education system needs to change. They talk about how education is the same as it has always been and the world around the school is changing. Studies show that coal mining is more IT intensive than education!! That is really disturbing!! This means that the education system needs to change. The video talked about how students are surrounded by their social networks all day and when they get to school the things they use the most aren't allowed in the classroom. If they were, students would be getting an education that is geared towards the students involvement and their independence. These things are what is going to make the 21st century education so vital. First, they need to have these technologies and changes established with the teachers. Without them, none of it will be possible. I agree with what the educators in this video are saying. We need to get the schools to incorporate technology so that we can move up the top 55 and become more IT intensive than coal mining. This is a change that has needed to be made for awhile now but we have to start somewhere and now is the time!

The Secret Powers of Time

In this video, Professor Zimbardo starts off with saying there are 6 different time zones: 2 focus on the past, 2 focus on the present, and 2 focus on the future. The people from the past are either past positive or past negative. Some people are present oriented and only are concerned about what is going on now. The future oriented people are worried about what is going to go on later in their life. People in the south are more past oriented and people in the north are more present oriented. Robert Levine wrote a book about the pace of life. The pace of life is where people divide their own experiences into timezones. It is also divided into time duration which is usually divided by whether they are bored, excited or not.  He goes on to talk about how a child in America drops out of school every 9 seconds. He says that it is worse for minority groups and the male population. This is because kids are in a society where they live in a society where. technology is everywhere except for in schools. Kids are in a rush all the time and are use to not having to wait. There is a fundamental change going on in the society and schools need to jump on the technology train and get with the program. We need to understand peoples time perspective. People are forgetting their family's to make sure they become successful. This is something that needs to change as well. There needs to be more emphasis on family values and all it takes is people changing their perspective on time.

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

Daniel Pink discusses what motivates someone. He says there are two studies that he wants to discuss and they are 1) if you reward something do you get more of the behavior you want? and 2) If you punish something do you get less of the behavior you want? He then goes on to talk about a study that MIT did that showed how students reacted to the test they were given and how well they did for different types of rewards. The higher you got, the better the monetary reward was. They concluded with a shocking result that most people wouldn't think but it was: above rudimentary skill the less the reward matter meaning the reward doesn't work that way. I would have never thought higher incentives would lead to worse performance. Another thing he talks about is how money is a motivator and if you don't pay people enough, they won't be motivated. This was easy enough for me to see because money is a big deal to most humans. What I didn't know was if you pay people enough it will lead to them being focused on the work and not the money. Autonomy helps people be better workers especially when the boss gets out of the way and lets the worker do the things they need to do. Mastery is a way that people do things they love and not worry that they don't get paid for it. Purpose is something that people really care about as well.

I love how this video talked about what can help us change the world and make it better for us all. If these were emphasized in the classroom then our students would be excited about the things they are doing. Success could become a major thing in the classroom when the teachers get behind the students and let them be independent thinkers and learners. These were both amazing videos and I enjoyed a lot of things they discussed.