Today's work was very informative.
I found that the embedding of the video will save time and make it easier to transition from thought to thought without all the wait. You don't have to exit the screen each time you want to show your students something. Pausing the video and discussing is easier too.
From the articles to the short videos I found so much information that opened my eyes wider than ever before. The media multitasking article was insightful (Foehr, U. 2006 Media Multitasking Among American Youth). I knew that the television was and has been for some time a technological-media source. Just how much of an impact it has had is nothing in comparison to the computer. One of the pieces of the article really made it clear,
The computer truly
appears to be a media multitasking station, and may be at least partly
responsible for an increase in media multitasking.
While often party to media
multitasking, traditional media such as television and music do not appear to
foster media multitasking, whereas the computer appears to be a serious media
multitasking promoter.Youth and Students who are exposed to more media are more likely to media multitask.
Why should media be excluded from the classroom? The amount of information that the student is exposed to outside of the classroom is far more then the information they receive inside the classroom. Technology has definitely created a new environment and we can't expect to do things the old fashion way. When I watch the the 5 min video( Learning to Change. Changing to Learn ) it became clear to me that if we want our students to make global connections then we as educators would have to be able to do the same. The final thought from the video really hit home, "the death of education, but the dawn of learning"
When I watched the Torres and Henderson video the comparison and analogy that was given about the coffee bean and the school standards was right on. We have to be the reason that the students want to learn. We have to be the WOW factor in their educational experience. Bringing motivation and inspirational moments to them each day will keep them wanting more. The quote "if we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow" was powerful. We have to be willing to change ourselves. Remembering that:
commodity=standards
good=content/curriculum
service=instruction
experience(wow)=teacher The only way that this can truly work is if I make the effort to not just do things differently but to do different things. Then I become their wow, I become their Starbucks
