Monday, September 12, 2011
Here is Enemy #1 - or the Prophet of Truth . . .
Jay Walking. Placement Test.
How can you hope to compete?
Then there is the "myth of nostalgia" - Check this one out.
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College Comp 2 Students, looks like you are working extremely hard in this class. My question for you; are you going to stretch yourself in this class or are you going to do what you need to do to get by? Think about that before we get too far into the quarter. You have a unique opportunity in this classroom. Start now being a lifelong learner. Find something in every assignment that is yours and run with it! I watched a video from Twitter last night entitled, "Are you a teacher or an educator?" Think about the classroom you are in and answer that question for yourself. Great opportunity! FIND YOUR PASSION! - Mr. Zutz
ReplyDelete'Iowa, Did You Know?' has a line in there, something along the lines of students having more access to a mobile phone than a clean toilet--it's so true!
ReplyDeleteAnother thing I found interesting was Corey Menscher's baby that tweeted from the womb. I googled it because I really had my doubts, but I guess it's true. He designed a wastebelt for his wife and called it project 'Kickbee' whenever it recieved a jolt it sent a signal to tweet "I kicked Mommy." It's kind of scary the random things people will think up.
All in all, I totally agree that critical thinking and problem solving need to be focused on more. Anything factual that we need to know, google knows in 5 seconds or less.
Tried to watch Bauerlein on ReasonTV. Got so irritated I quit. He conceives of learning as receiving and then repeating external information. Freire calls that the "banking model." It works for data-driven tasks. It doesn't work to build thinkers. Bauerlein's conception of learniing won't prevent thinking; it also won't work toward developing thinking, especially not for developing independent thought.
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When Mark Bauerlein was talking about the multimedia distracting us from "the works of Cleopatra" i don't think he realizes that even if we didn't have Facebook or cell phones, we probably wouldn't be reading that anyways. I think he really forgets that even before the digital age, kids weren't hold up in their rooms reading the classics and a history of paper.
ReplyDeleteIn that Iowa thing how does todays classroom look like one from 1890? I think they are exaggerating a little, we have come a long ways since then with all the new technology we use in school. I do agree however that we need to start "preparing the students for the future and not the past" a little more.
ReplyDeleteIn Did you Know, it says towards the end that we must "Prepare our students for the future not keep them in the past." I think this is the concept that Bauerlein needs to grasp. We are past his time when memorizing little facts were important because we have the advantage to pull out our phone and look it up in two seconds. Or use our iPad. Or our laptops. He needs to realize technogly is the future and that this is just the beginning of a new way of learning.
ReplyDeleteI think that no matter what millenials do the other generations will always be critical of us. We have not even graduated yet and we are already being judged on how bad we will turn out to be.
ReplyDeleteThe "Did You Know?" video said that books on Kindle now outsell paperback and hardcover books on Amazon. Think about it: one e-reader or of 3 or 4 hardcover textbooks. What would you rather have to carry around? There's studies on how our backpacks hurt our bodies. Maybe e-readers aren't a bad idea?
ReplyDeleteI think the video just shows that times have changes and will continue to change and we're going to not only have to accept that, but do something about it, which might mean changing the way we do things. But hey, it's survival of the fittest. If you're not willing to change, someone who is will take your place. Like it says, "Do we get intimidated by these new demands or do we redesign, retrain, rebuild?"
-I only made it through about 2 minutes of the Bauerlein video and I had heard enough. He definitely just likes to bring out the bad, and end even says that the reason we don't do enough reading and museum visits and whatever else is because we have a lot more option. Duh!
From Morgan -
ReplyDeleteDid You Know: A few random thoughts:
-Where have I been? Since when is the world population 7 billion, not 6 billion? Yikes.
-It was scary to learn that 35 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute, which is about equal in length to 176,000 full-length Hollywood releases every week. Take that, Bauerlein. I'm pretty sure that you didn't personally contribute to uploading any of that.
-It was surprising that 87% of teenagers text, one would think that it would be a closer to 100%. I have yet to meet one that doesn't.
-I'm glad I don't live in Iowa; they rank low in pretty much everything!
-"80% of high school students' daily classroom study is low-level mental work." Whose generation is responsible for that? Any guesses?
That is all!
He just contradicted himself. In the actual book, he says that we only read things like Harry Potter because of our friends. In the video he says that our friends aren't going to expose us to new vocabulary or anything other than the social world. That is not true at all, because if a friend said a new word I would ask what that means and then I would most likely use that in the future and eventually end up passing it along to someone else. Also, what does he think we talk about on Facebook or other social networks? If I'm having trouble with a question on homework I can just message a friend in that class with me to help me out. I think that he underestimates us and groups us into one large group, and that's not fair.
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ReplyDeleteHow is it possible that we are spending less on technology now than we were 10 years ago? With prices for everything going up and all of the new technology, we are clearly going backwards. Why would we not want to take advantage of everything we can? It won't hurt us. It will only help us.
In one of the past chapters, he was telling us about how expensive technology is to put into the schools. I wonder why he never bought up the fact of how much money the school is saving on paper and such? The point about no increase in test scores makes sense. But, he also says there is no proven increase. It would be something to look into on how much the schools that switched are saving.
ReplyDeleteI love how he keeps bringing up how we, as young people, are avoiding the resources and media that will help enhance our knowledge and 'boost our talents'. We have the world and all of its resources right at our figure tips with the internet . I know that I use it daily to research topics and ideas not only for schoolwork but for my own curiosities sake. I don't think that I'm the only person who does this either. Millennials have unending access to knowledge and aren't afraid to explore!
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