In Will Richardson’s “Footprints in the Digital Age” he focuses on the potential kids have of being internet teachers in their future. There are so many websites and functions on a computer that we can not learn all of it from other people. We are the “Googled” generation.
Students are teaching themselves about the web and its uses. They don’t choose to use it as an educational tool though. They would rather chat with their friends on face book and MySpace or watch videos of other people on YouTube. But if they enter the educational region of a classroom they, as Will Richardson describes I, “turn off the lights”. If they used there web time for more educational purposes they would be more comfortable with school. Though without the googleable students today the internet in the future may be too complex for the next generation of kids may be too overwhelmed with the technology. There aren’t colleges that teach kids all about the web.
Some of the kids use the web for educational purposes. It is quite amazing that we can engage in conversations with people half way around the world. They could provide an outside opinion of something like our nation. Like Laura’s blog, “Twenty-Five Days to Make a Difference” she can influence people that are half way around the world to do the same thing. She also used it to get other ideas to help other charities in her community. We can use the web for so many positive purposes to help guide humanity into the Web 2.0 world.
So their web searching and computer learning desires could control our future internet technology. We are in their hands that are constantly punching away at the keyboard of the future.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Who Holds Our Nations Future
In Karl Fisch’s article post “Dear Denver Post-You’re the Disappointment” the picture was enough to fully understand the title. The Denver post is making school sound even worse for the students because their backing them up.
In the Denver Post’s article the first sentence is “Summer is almost over, and the disappointment about returning to class . . .”. With the number of student drop outs know the Denver Post is almost encouraging it. Students every where in our nation have learned to deal with school, but the Denver Post is agree with students that school is a waste of time. The media of the 21ST century should be promoting school. A lot of teachers say that we’re going to have jobs that don’t even exist today. If the media of today discourages school there won’t be enough people educated in the new fields to keep our nation “running”.
The future of the students lives and our nation is ending up to be in the hands of the media all around the world.
In the Denver Post’s article the first sentence is “Summer is almost over, and the disappointment about returning to class . . .”. With the number of student drop outs know the Denver Post is almost encouraging it. Students every where in our nation have learned to deal with school, but the Denver Post is agree with students that school is a waste of time. The media of the 21ST century should be promoting school. A lot of teachers say that we’re going to have jobs that don’t even exist today. If the media of today discourages school there won’t be enough people educated in the new fields to keep our nation “running”.
The future of the students lives and our nation is ending up to be in the hands of the media all around the world.
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Who Is In Control
In Nicholas Carr’s “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” ,featured in The Atlantic magazine, you start to say yes to the title. This generation of kids are being molded differently than older ones. To use we can find information in minutes when it took them
an hour in a library.
To Google reading long articles or books is bad. They want people clicking on different links and surfing the internet to different pages so they now how to lure people in. Their need ,or want, for money is causing our brain to change its thinking process. The more we surf the richer they become. They don’t care at all about how our lives are being changed as long as their successful.
Our minds are pulled in by short articles than long books. When you sit down to read a book you might space out and check your email, go on facebook or just surf the web. Younger minds are being pulled into short articles that sound interesting. The internet is a whole new and different world to us that draws us in.
So we may think that we control the internet but in reality its controlling our mind.
an hour in a library.
To Google reading long articles or books is bad. They want people clicking on different links and surfing the internet to different pages so they now how to lure people in. Their need ,or want, for money is causing our brain to change its thinking process. The more we surf the richer they become. They don’t care at all about how our lives are being changed as long as their successful.
Our minds are pulled in by short articles than long books. When you sit down to read a book you might space out and check your email, go on facebook or just surf the web. Younger minds are being pulled into short articles that sound interesting. The internet is a whole new and different world to us that draws us in.
So we may think that we control the internet but in reality its controlling our mind.
Thursday, September 9, 2010
What Will the Future Hold for You
In Chris Suellentrop’s article “War Games”, he reflects how the current generation of kids lives are changing due to mindless video games. Almost every kid is hooked on video games, but what is it they are usually playing. Is it old style games like “Pac Man” or the original “Maria Brothers”? No they choose fighting and killing games over harmless games, yet they think that war between countries is inhumane and wrong.
One of the games referred to in the article is “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare”. Have any kids, or even some adults, stopped to realize that they are just killing people too. Though some might argue by saying “well its just a game and nobody is really getting hurt.” They are perfectly fine with killing a computer-generated player because they don’t do anything to another person.
Do you think the people who play war video games would be careful with a real gun? Most would probably know not to mess around with weapons. Yet some people will feel like its second nature due to the games. One other game in the article that has an effect on children’s lives is “Grand Theft Auto”. In these games you run around shooting ordinary people, high jack any car you want, and disobey every law out there. So the real question is; Do you think the people who play this game, almost every day, will be in a successful career like a doctor or a lawyer, or will they live through life stealing food, money, cars, etc.?
We have to put our own future into wondering if these war game addicted kids are going to keep playing the game when they leave the video behind.
One of the games referred to in the article is “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare”. Have any kids, or even some adults, stopped to realize that they are just killing people too. Though some might argue by saying “well its just a game and nobody is really getting hurt.” They are perfectly fine with killing a computer-generated player because they don’t do anything to another person.
Do you think the people who play war video games would be careful with a real gun? Most would probably know not to mess around with weapons. Yet some people will feel like its second nature due to the games. One other game in the article that has an effect on children’s lives is “Grand Theft Auto”. In these games you run around shooting ordinary people, high jack any car you want, and disobey every law out there. So the real question is; Do you think the people who play this game, almost every day, will be in a successful career like a doctor or a lawyer, or will they live through life stealing food, money, cars, etc.?
We have to put our own future into wondering if these war game addicted kids are going to keep playing the game when they leave the video behind.
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Students' Lives Today
In Michael Wesch’s “A Vision of Students Today” it shows how technology and the issues in the world are changing the lives of students Today. Most adults and teachers don’t even look into there lives and see what is going on. Some of the statements shocked me into reality and I am even apart of it.
There was a multitude of items off of the lists that I believe should be brought to the attention of my fellow piers. One of the first things that I noticed was that one student claimed only 18 percent of her teachers knew her. That is horrifying to think that they don’t even know their name over a whole school year. Another student said that when she graduates she will probably have a job that doesn’t exist today. Everyone has said that there will be so many jobs in a few years that don’t exist today and we are being trained to do. Another aspect of their lives is that there are so many problems in the students’ lives. Although the problems in the world were not caused by them, they have to deal with it. Students think that technology can solve everything in our world today. They bring there laptops to school to mess around in class to make school better. Their lives are being changed every day by devices that fit in their hand. Everyone in our nation should become aware of this change in the students’ lives.
There was a multitude of items off of the lists that I believe should be brought to the attention of my fellow piers. One of the first things that I noticed was that one student claimed only 18 percent of her teachers knew her. That is horrifying to think that they don’t even know their name over a whole school year. Another student said that when she graduates she will probably have a job that doesn’t exist today. Everyone has said that there will be so many jobs in a few years that don’t exist today and we are being trained to do. Another aspect of their lives is that there are so many problems in the students’ lives. Although the problems in the world were not caused by them, they have to deal with it. Students think that technology can solve everything in our world today. They bring there laptops to school to mess around in class to make school better. Their lives are being changed every day by devices that fit in their hand. Everyone in our nation should become aware of this change in the students’ lives.
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