Blog Post # 4

Don't teach your kids this stuff. Please?

Mr. Scott McLeod is an associate professor and also a CASTLE director. Mr. McLeod is form Ames, Iowa. He posted this blog "Don't teach your kids this stuff. Please?"

When I began reading Mr. McLeod's post the first thing that came to mind was that he really dislikes technology.  When i finished it I realized that he that he did not hate technology but he hated the negative outcomes that come with technology. For example children can be on the internet thinking they are chatting with other teenagers  when they are really chatting with some fifty year old. Children can also become the victims of cyber bullying. Which I believe is the worst thing about technology. Because bullies will hide behind there computers and pick on other children and think they are so cool. I believe that Mr. McLeod wont's us as future educators to teach our students how to properly make us of computers. In life there are always good and bad but when you are taught properly how to use something you can do so much good with it.

The iSchool Initiative


Travis Allen is a high school senior he created this post entitled, "The iSchool Initiative". In his post he makes some very interesting posts when talking about the new steps into helping classrooms with advancement of technology. I believe that Travis did an amazing job on researching the information on all the different applications that are available. I also liked how he shows all the initiative that would help the environment and how this would also help school districts save tones of money in the long run. I believe that in the future that the iSchool will be introduced. 

Lost Generation

When i first watched this video i was like wow.  While I was reading alone with the story I was horrified. Then when she begin reading the story backwards the two stories begin to tie into together. I thought it was amazing that you can take something that is is negative and then turn and have something positive.

In today's world there is always someone who is waiting to unleash all the negativities that this world has.  In her video family is extremely important and we should never let work or anything else come between it.

Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir and Jennifer Chamber's post

I found this video to be so amazing the people who were performing  the Lux Aurumque had never gotten together before to practice. I thought it was so amazing that the all learned the same from the internet. The sounds were so amazing, I would have never thought that something that sounded so amazing like this would have ever done without the use of technology. The other thing that amazes me is that these people were from all over the world and yet they still can create something that sounded so unbelievable.

Teaching in the 21st Century

Being that this is the 21st century  everything revovles around technology. Technology is every where and it makes up just about everything. As future teachers we have to make sure that our students are using the computers properly. Its important to make sure that they know how important it is to use technology correctly. They must know that computers can be used as a positive and also a negative.  

Before the 21st century technology was not everything it is today.  Students use to have to rely on the teachers for all the information they recieve. Now days students can get on the internet and find the information.  There can be tones of problems with this though. How many third graders know to look and see if the site that they are receiving the information from is correct. Because there are so many different sites out there that say so many different things.