April 11th Blog Assignment

DR. SUESS- THE ZAX

I loved this video! It describes the school system almost exactly in my opinion. Or some teachers rather. I mean what some don't realize or just don't want to accept is that things are different now than they were 10 years ago. Things are way different than 50 years ago. Why should we still be doing the same things we were doing then? The world has changed and school systems should too. Our culture these days is so complex and advanced so why shouldn't our learning be? There are so many ways technology can work with our school systems to make learning more fun and more advanced. When you have all this technology helping you it makes everything faster and if everything is faster there is more time to learn more things that maybe we didn't have time to learn before. We need to take advantage of our resources because we are so lucky to have them.

ANOTHER PS22 VIDEO

This video was amazing! It was so touching and I absolutely loved it! It really speaks to us to see children coming together like this and making things work, especially when it is a video like this one. You could just see on their faces how important this was to them and just how much it meant. I love the song they were singing but I had never though about it being tied to the learning system. It is so right though, people these days are so afraid of changing even when it is for the best. They are so set in their ways because thats how they learned it and thats how they think it should be done that there isn't any room for new stuff.

I believe for a child to blog about or post their work is very important. It gives educators around the world a look through the eyes of the children. You get the chance to read what the kids write hear what they think and even see and read how they see things. This is so awesome to me. Every child is different and to see all the differences through blogging is a wonderful opportunity that teachers these days should take advantage of.

Some examples include pictures where the child made art on the computer that goes along with the assignment they were given. For instance all the blogs we see in our comments for kids. There are also the videos made by children recording what they are doing in science and they record their data and learn from trial and error in a lab setting. This helps because children and teachers in the future can go back and see these experiments and what did and didn't work. Last but not least teachers can make videos to help teach their students. By using a recording or video a teacher can remember things or projects that went well and their outcome, when teaching new students they can use past students videos to teach them how to do the projects also.