This video has some very interesting facts about other students and people that lives in other countries.
Facts one is that students in India and China are learning to speak English at a faster rate than Americans students.
The future of these children will have the ability to read, write and understand English and their own languages, also they will become faster user's of the Internet and be more advance in Technology.
This video made a statement that students in India has a higher IQ rate then the count part of mixed Americans students taking the same courses in colleges as they are.
I am just being to text on my phone, send emails, twitters and checking my face-book for instant message, when this video clearly states that more people in this country and other nations are sending Two or more hours just sending Instant messages from their cell-phones, while they are at school, work and within their home environment.
Video #2: Mr. Winkle Wakes: Matthew Needleman:
Mr Winkle is a person within this video that wakes up and see there are a lot of changes have accord around him after many years of sleeping.
This reminds me about the story of Sleeping Beauty, by Charles Perrault, http://www.children story.info/children stories/sleeping beauty.html
This story were many different screens in which The Prince had cut through hedges and weeds to get to his future wife The Princess, after a wicked fairy put a spell on her and the entire castle.
She went to sleep and many things had change around her and this castle from people getting older, pots on the stove with food in them becoming spoiled and rotten and she being kissed by him to be awake after many years of sleeping.
This story is for all people and children to understand that there will be changes that will happen within their lifetime, just like it happen within Mr. Winkles time after he woke up from sleeping for near One Hundred and One years.
There will be new computers designs, new X-ray's machines that will show just how someone have a broken bone or there will even be a cure for cancer, from the way people will education their children and their grandchildren, by using up-to-date technology to help them study for exams and take notes.
Just like the video Mr. Winkle wakes up to find so many different changes happening around: New and Taller buildings, a hospital as high as the Twin Towers, people driving automobiles on the wrong side of the streets, street signs with a speed limited and one of the funny and interest thing he find is several people talking to each other through the computer with their face showing.
This video Mr. Winkles wakes up is designed to let everyone in the world know that time waits for no-one and changes are according on a daily base.Video #3 Sir Ken Robinson: The Importance of Creativity
Within this video Sir Robinson is speaking of people about becoming more creative with their own ideals and designs and communicating with them about how education will change things within their children lives.
He is also lecturing them on being prepared for the future and their children and grandchildren lives by making sure that their ideals and goals are being met on a daily base.
This information is important to me, because of the many changes I am going through within my own personal life.
From returning back to college after many years of working in the work force, finding employment at my age very difficult to find in the career I chose, comparing myself to others that has graduated with me over Thirty years ago on how their are very successful in the lives and I am just getting back into focus.
Therefore, if I stay focus on completing my education to become a teacher and being able to used my brain power to gain the knowledge of my professors, then I will also become very successful within the next phrase of my life.
Video #4 A Vision for 21th Century
This video is about students learning from memorizes what their teacher's are saying and some of it will help them in the future and some it will not.
By memorizing information it could be miss quoted by others, in today's Twenty-First Century students are well advance in technology, video chatting, designing movies, finding information on the internet and they starts at a very early age like in Kindergraten.
I know some children learned by memorizing just what the teachers has said, I think that if students will takes notes and research information on their own, by using the internet, school libararies and other form of resources, they will find out that most of the information is true and creditable from their teachers.
By using computers and other technologies not just students can learned to understand information that is gived to them in today's Twenty Century of advanced texting, emailing and blogging so others will understand their writing.
Video # 5: Vickie Davis: Harness Your Students's Digital Smarts
This video, this video has some great information about being prepared for the future and helping students to understand that time is changing and it is getting faster and faster everyday with new and better information in communicating to others in other nations and countries.
There is a teacher in the State of Georgia, whom is helping her students understand and learned that to communicated to others is not just using pencil and paper or passing notes to others, it is more advanced then that with learning new technology terms and researching the meaning of each and every words.
She is showing them that more and more people are turning toward advanced technologies as a form of saying hello or talking in other languages to multi-cultures people.
To me learning different ways of communicating to others from texting on cell-phone, using Skye to talk to others, sending pictures in 3-D formates, creating a video in real time, learning other languages being spoken by other people in countries like Mexico, China, Japan, India and all over the world, more and more students will be preapred for their future.
These five video had me to think about the future of my family and how advance the next generations of children will be in communicating with others.
Did they do the same for you?
Hello Linda,
ReplyDeleteI like how you include a question at the end of your post to bring the points back into the reader's mind. It's a great way of focusing and condensing what has been read and applying it to a certain situation. I noticed that the pictures did not load and that there is an issue with them, but I'm not sure what exactly might be wrong. If you come into the lab and ask one of us to take a look, I'm sure we can get it straightened out. There are a few issues syntactically as well as spelling and grammar wise throughout your post, so my best advice is to go to the writing lab or write your posts in a Word document first. Usually that step will catch anything minor like most of yours are.
Otherwise, you made some interesting commentary on the prompts and I love how you connected Mr. Winkle Wakes to Sleeping Beauty and the changes that the world undergoes whether we wish them to or not.